Naquetia is a genus of medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails or murex snails.[1]
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| A shell of Naquetia barclayi, anterior end towards the bottom of the page | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricinae |
| Genus: | Naquetia Jousseaume, 1880 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Murex triqueter Born, 1778 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species edit
Species within the genus Naquetia include:
- Naquetia annandalei (Preston, 1910)
- Naquetia barclayi (Reeve, 1858)
- Naquetia cumingii (A. Adams, 1853)
- Naquetia fosteri D'Attilio & Hertz, 1987
- Naquetia jickelii (Tapparone Canefri, 1875)
- Naquetia manwaii Houart & Héros, 2013
- Naquetia rhondae Houart & Lorenz, 2015
- Naquetia triqueter (Born, 1778)
- Naquetia vokesae Houart, 1986
- Species brought into synonymy
- Naquetia capucina (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Chicoreus capucinus (Lamarck, 1822)
- Naquetia superbus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889): synonym of Chicomurex superbus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889)
References edit
- ^ a b Houart, R. (2010). Naquetia Jousseaume, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204408 on 2010-12-22
- Houart, R., Moe, C. & Chen C. (2021). Living species of the genera Chicomurex Arakawa, 1964 and Naquetia Jousseaume, 1880 (Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Indo-West Pacific. Novapex. 22 (hors-série 14): 1-52.
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp.
External links edit
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- Nomenclator Zoologicus info
- Jousseaume F. P. (1880). Division méthodique de la famille des Purpuridés. Le Naturaliste 2(42): 335-338
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