Polinices
Encyclopedia
Polinices is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Naticidae
known as moon shells.
Glossaulax Pilsbry, 1929 is a synonym or a subgenus of Polinices.
Species brought into synonymy :
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of sea snail
Sea snail
Sea snail is a common name for those snails that normally live in saltwater, marine gastropod molluscs....
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod molluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Naticidae
Naticidae
Naticidae, common name the moon snails, is a family of minute to large-sized predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Littorinimorpha.Naticidae is the only family in the superfamily Naticoidea....
known as moon shells.
Glossaulax Pilsbry, 1929 is a synonym or a subgenus of Polinices.
Species
Species within the genus Polinices include:- Polinices albumen (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Polinices aperinus
- Polinices aurantius (Röding, 1798)
- Polinices bahamiensis (DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1825) - Polinices bifasciatus (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)
- Polinices candidissimus (Le Guillou, 1842)
- Polinices columnaris (Récluz, 1850)
- Polinices draconis (DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1903) - Polinices flemingianusPolinices flemingianusPolinices flemingianus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.-Distribution:This species is distributed in the Indian Ocean along Aldabra, Chagos and the Mascarene Basin.-References:...
(Recluz, 1844) - Polinices grossulariaPolinices grossulariaPolinices grossularia is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
Marche-Marchad, 1957 - Polinices helicoides (Gray, 1825)
- Polinices hepaticusPolinices hepaticusPolinices hepaticus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(RödingPeter Friedrich RödingPeter Friedrich Röding was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg. Very little is known about this naturalist.Many of Röding's descriptions are of species which were first named by earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini and Martin Lister...
, 1798) - brown moonsnail - Polinices lacteusPolinices lacteusPolinices lacteus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Guilding, 1834) - milk moonsnail - Polinices leptaleusPolinices leptaleusPolinices leptaleus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
Watson, 1881 - Polinices mammillaPolinices mammillaPolinices mammilla is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Linnaeus, 1758) - Polinices mellosum (Hedley, 1924)
- Polinices nubilusPolinices nubilusPolinices nubilus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(DallW. H. DallWilliam Healey Dall was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska...
, 1889) - Polinices otis Broderip & Sowerby, 1829
- Polinices parvulus Bozzetti, 2010
- Polinices peselephanti (Link, 1807)
- Polinices politiana
- Polinices porcelanus (d'Orbigny, 1839)
- Polinices priamusPolinices priamusPolinices priamus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Récluz, 1843) - Polinices uber (ValenciennesAchille ValenciennesAchille Valenciennes was a French zoologist.Valenciennes was born in Paris, and studied under Georges Cuvier. Valenciennes' study of parasitic worms in humans made an important contribution to the study of parasitology...
, 1832) - Polinices uberinusPolinices uberinusPolinices uberinus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(d'Orbigny, 1842) - dwarf white moonsnail, white moonsnail - Polinices zanzibaricaPolinices zanzibaricaPolinices zanzibarica is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
Recluz
Species brought into synonymy :
- Polinices didyma (Röding, 1798) : synonym of Neverita didymaNeverita didymaNeverita didyma, common name : the Bladder Moon Snail, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.-Description:The size of an adult shell varies between 20 mm and 90 mm...
(Röding, 1798) - Polinices duplicatus (SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1822) : synonym of Neverita duplicataNeverita duplicataNeverita duplicata, common name the shark eye, is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails. -Distribution:This is a common western Atlantic species...
(Say, 1822) - Polinices heros SayThomas SayThomas Say was an American naturalist, entomologist, malacologist, herpetologist and carcinologist. A taxonomist, he is often considered to be the father of descriptive entomology in the United States. He described more than 1,000 new species of beetles and over 400 species of insects of other...
, 1822 : synonym of Euspira heros (Say, 1822) - Polinices lewisii is a synonym for Euspira lewisiiEuspira lewisiiEuspira lewisii , common name Lewis' moon snail, is a species of large operculated sea snail. It is a predatory marine gastropod in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Gould, 1847) - Polinices nanus Möller, 1842 : synonym of Pseudopolinices nanusPseudopolinices nanusPseudopolinices nanus is a species of predatory sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Naticidae, the moon snails....
(Möller, 1842) - Polinices tawhitirahia PowellArthur William Baden PowellDr Arthur William Baden Powell CBE was a New Zealand malacologist, naturalist and palaeontologist, a major influence in the study and classification of New Zealand molluscs through much of the twentieth century. He was known to his friends and family by his third name, "Baden".Powell was born at...
, 1965 : synonym of Polinices mellosum (Hedley, 1924)