Iphinopsis Explained

Iphinopsis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.

Species

Species within the genus Iphinopsis include:

• Iphinopsis alba Bouchet & Warén, 1985
• Iphinopsis bathyalis (Okutani, 1964)
• Iphinopsis boucheti Okutani, Hashimoto & Sasaki, 2004
• Iphinopsis choshiensis (Habe, 1958)
• Iphinopsis fuscoapicata Bouchet & Warén, 1985
• Iphinopsis inflata (Friele, 1879)
• Iphinopsis kelseyi (Dall, 1908)
• Iphinopsis kulanda (Garrard, 1975)
• Iphinopsis nuda Dall, 1927
• Iphinopsis splendens Simone & Birman, 2006
• Iphinopsis traverseensis (A.H. Clarke, 1961)

Species brought into synonymy:

• Iphinopsis euthymei (Barnard, 1960): synonym of Nothoadmete euthymei (Barnard, 1960)
• Iphinopsis kroyeri (Philippi, 1849): synonym of Neoiphinoe kroeyeri (Philippi, 1849)

References

• Habe T. (1958). Descriptions of ten new gastropod species. Venus. 20(1): 32-42

External links

• Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico. supplement 1: 121-296
• Hemmen J. (2007) Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8].