Reishia Explained

Reishia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

Species

Species within the genus Reishia include:

• Reishia bitubercularis (Lamarck, 1822)
• Reishia clavigera (Küster, 1860)
• Reishia keluo (K.-S. Tan & L.-L. Liu, 2001)
• Reishia luteostoma (Holten, 1802)
• Reishia okutanii Thach, 2016
• Reishia problematica (Baker, 1891)

Synonyms:

• Reishia armigera (Link, 1807): synonym of Mancinella armigera Link, 1807
• Reishia bronni (Dunker, 1860): synonym of Reishia luteostoma (Holten, 1802) (junior subjective synonym)
• Reishia capensis (Petit, 1852): synonym of Mancinella capensis (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
• Reishia jubilaea (K.-S. Tan & Sigurdsson, 1990): synonym of Reishia luteostoma (Holten, 1802) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
• Reishia pseudodiadema (Yokoyama, 1928): synonym of Thais pseudodiadema (Yokoyama, 1928)

References

• Kuroda, T.; Habe, T.; Oyama, K. (1971). The sea shells of Sagami Bay. Maruzen Co., Tokyo. xix, 1-741 (Japanese text), 1-489 (English text), 1-51 (Index), pls 1–121.
• Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102