Janthina

Janthina janthina

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Epitonioidea 

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Kingdom: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: ParaHoxozoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Caenogastropoda
Superfamilia Incertae sedis: Epitonioidea

Familia: Epitoniidae
Genus:
Species: †J. chavani – J. exigua – J. globosa – J. janthina – †J. krejcii – J. pallida – †J. typica – J. umbilicata

Name

Janthina Röding, 1798: 75

  • Type species: Helix janthina Linnaeus, 1758 = Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758) (by absolute tautonymy)

Synonymy

  • Achates Gistel, 1848 (unnecessary substitute name)
  • Acrybia (Hartungia) Bronn, 1861
  • Amethistina [sic] (misspelling)
  • Ametistina Schinz, 1825 (suppressed by ICZN Opinion 989)
  • Hartungia Bronn, 1861
  • Heligmope Tate, 1893
  • Ianthina
  • Ianthina (Iodina) Mörch, 1860
  • Iodes Mörch, 1860
  • Iodina Mörch, 1860
  • Janthina (Achates) Gistel, 1848
  • Janthina (Iodes) Mörch, 1860
  • Janthina (Iodina) Mörch, 1860
  • Janthinus Montfort, 1810 (unjustified emendation)
  • Jantina [sic] (misspelling)
  • Kaneconcha Kaim, Tucholke & Warén, 2012
  • Parajanthina Tomida & Itoigawa, 1982
  • Violetta Iredale, 1929

References

Primary references

  • Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg. viii, 199 pp. BHL. Reference page. 
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