Thais (gastropod)

Thais
A pair of Thais clavigera with many egg masses
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
(unranked): clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Thais
Röding, 1798
Species

See text.

Thais, sometimes known by the common names dog winkles or rock shells, is a genus of medium to large predatory sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock shells.[1]

Species

Species within the genus Thais include:

Subgenus Thais (Mancinella) Link, 1807
Subgenus Thais (Neorapana) Cooke, 1918
Subgenus Thais (Thais) Röding, 1798
Subgenus Thais (Thaisella) Clench, 1947
Subgenus Thais (Thalessa) H. & A. Adams, 1853
Subgenus Thais (Vasula) Mörch, 1860

Species also mentioned in ITIS, the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database (OBIS)[3] and in the Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca (Malacolog)[4]

Species brought into synonymy 

References

  1. Houart, R.; Gofas, S. (2010). Thais Röding, 1798. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138207 on 2011-01-10
  2. Tan K. S. & Sigurdsson J. B. (1990). "A new species of Thais (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from Singapore and Peninsular Malaysia". The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 38(2): 205-211. PDF.
  3. OBIS : Thais; accessed : 10 January 2011
  4. Malacolog : Thais; accessed : 10 January 2011]

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