Warenia is a genus of sea snails in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails. There is one species in the genus: Warenia elegantula.[2] This marine species occurs of the Aleutian Islands.[1][2]
Warenia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Mollusca |
Class: | Gastropoda |
Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
Order: | Neogastropoda |
Family: | Muricidae |
Genus: | Warenia Houart, Vermeij & Wiedrick, 2019 |
Species: | W. elegantula
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Binomial name | |
Warenia elegantula (Dall, 1907)
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Synonyms[1] | |
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References
edit- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Warenia elegantula (Dall, 1907). Accessed 2020-06-15
- ^ a b MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Warenia Houart, Vermeij & Wiedrick, 2019. Accessed on 2020-06-15
Further reading
edit- Dall W.H. (1907). Descriptions of new species of shells, chiefly Buccinidae, from the dredgings of the U.S.S. "Albatross" during 1906, in the northwestern Pacific, Bering, Okhotsk, and Japanese Seas. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 50(2): 139-173
- Houart, R.; Vermeij, G.; Wiedrick, S. (2019). New taxa and new synonymy in Muricidae (Neogastropoda: Pagodulinae, Trophoninae, Ocenebrinae) from the Northeast Pacific. Zoosymposia. 13(1): 184-241