Ceratoxancus Explained

Ceratoxancus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Costellariidae.

Species

Species within the genus Ceratoxancus include:

• Ceratoxancus basileus Kantor & Bouchet, 1997
• Ceratoxancus elongatus Sakurai, 1958
• Ceratoxancus leios Kantor & Bouchet, 1997
• Ceratoxancus lorenzi Poppe, Tagaro & Sarino, 2012^[1]
• Ceratoxancus melichrous Kantor & Bouchet, 1997
• Ceratoxancus niveus Kantor & Bouchet, 1997
• Ceratoxancus teramachii Kuroda, 1952

Classification

Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Turbinelloidea (Superfamily) > Costellariidae (Family) > Ceratoxancus (Genus)

References

• Kantor Yu.I., Bouchet Ph., 1997a. The anatomy and systematics of Ceratoxancus, a genus of deep-water Ptychatractinae (Gastropoda: Turbinellidae) with labral spine. Veliger, 40(2): 101-120

External links

• Fedosov A.E., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Dgebuadze P. & Bouchet P. (2017). Phylogeny, systematics, and evolution of the family Costellariidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 179(3): 541-626

Notes and References

1. Poppe, G. T., Tagaro, S. P., Sarino, J. C. (2012). A new Ceratoxancus (Gastropoda: Ptychatractidae), from the Philippines. Visaya (5) : 29-32.