Xymene is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails, found in New Zealand.[1]

Xymene
Xymene ambiguus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Pagodulinae
Genus: Xymene
Iredale, 1915
Type species
Fusus plebeius Hutton, 1873
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Axymene Finlay, 1926
  • Kalydon Hutton, 1873 (Invalid: Placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 911)
  • Lenitrophon Finlay, 1926
  • Trophon (Kalydon)
  • Xymenella Finlay, 1926
  • Zeatrophon Finlay, 1926

Species

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Species and subspecies within the genus Xymene include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Xymene ambiguus (Philippi, 1844): synonym of Zeatrophon ambiguus (Philippi, 1844)
  • Xymene aucklandicus (E. A. Smith, 1902): synonym of Axymene aucklandicus (E. A. Smith, 1902)
  • Xymene gouldi (Cossmann, 1903): synonym of Fuegotrophon pallidus (Broderip, 1833)
  • Xymene inferus (Hutton, 1878): synonym of Xymene plebeius (Hutton, 1873)
  • Xymene mortenseni (Odhner, 1924): synonym of Zeatrophon mortenseni (Odhner, 1924)
  • Xymene oliveri Marwick, 1924: synonym of Xymene pusillus (Suter, 1907)
  • Xymene pulcherrimus (Finlay, 1930): synonym of Zeatrophon pulcherrimus Finlay, 1930
  • Xymene pusillus (Suter, 1907): synonym of Xymenella pusilla (Suter, 1907)
  • Xymene quirindus Iredale, 1915: synonym of Xymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)
  • Xymene robustus Finlay, 1924: synonym of Xymene pumilus (Suter, 1909)
  • Xymene traversi (Hutton, 1873): synonym of Axymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)

References

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  1. ^ a b Houart, R. (2010). Xymene Iredale, 1915. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=399023 on 2011-04-10
  • Powell A W B, New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
  • W.F. Pondser, A review of the genus Xymene Iredale of New Zealand (Mollusca: Muricidae), Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, 1972, vol. 2 (4), pp. 471-499
  • Bruce A. Marshall, Molluscan and brachiopod taxa introduced by F. W. Hutton in The New Zealand journal of science; Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Volume 25, Issue 4, 1995