Siratus Explained
Siratus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Muricinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Species
Species within the genus Siratus include:
- Siratus aguayoi (Clench & Perez Farfante, 1945)
- Siratus alabaster (Reeve, 1845)
- Siratus articulatus (Reeve, 1845)
- Siratus beauii (Fischer & Bernardi, 1857)
- Siratus bessei (Houart, 2000)
- Siratus cailletti (Petit, 1856)
- Siratus carolynae (Vokes, 1990)
- Siratus caudacurtus (Houart, 1999)
- Siratus ciboney (Clench & Perez Farfante, 1945)
- Siratus colellai (Houart, 1999)
- Siratus coltrorum (Vokes, 1990)
- Siratus consuela (A. H. Verrill, 1950)
- Siratus cracens Houart, 2014
- Siratus evelynae Houart, 2012
- Siratus formosus (Sowerby, 1841)
- Siratus guionneti (Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2001)
- Siratus gundlachi (Dunker, 1883)
- † Siratus harzhauseri Landau & Houart, 2014
- Siratus hennequini (Houart, 2000)
- † Siratus hirmetzli Z. Kovács, 2018
- † Siratus komiticus (Suter, 1917)
- Siratus kugleri (Clench & Perez Farfante, 1945)
- Siratus lamyi Merle & Garrigues, 2008
- Siratus michelae Houart & Colomb, 2012
- Siratus motacilla (Gmelin, 1791)
- Siratus perelegans (Vokes, 1965)
- Siratus pliciferoides (Kuroda, 1942)
- Siratus pointieri Merle & Garrigues, 2011
- Siratus senegalensis (Gmelin, 1791)
- Siratus springeri (Bullis, 1964)
- † Siratus syngenes (Finlay, 1930)
- Siratus tenuivaricosus (Dautzenberg, 1927)
- Siratus thompsoni (Bullis, 1964)
- Siratus vokesorum (Garcia, 1999)
- Species brought into synonymy:
- Siratus gallinago (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903): synonym of Vokesimurex gallinago (G. B. Sowerby III, 1903)
- Siratus hirasei Shikama, 1973: synonym of Siratus pliciferoides (Kuroda, 1942)
- Siratus vicdani Kosuge, 1980 : synonym of Siratus pliciferoides (Kuroda, 1942)
References
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648
- Houart R. (2012) Description of a new species in the Siratus pliciferoides group (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Philippines. Novapex 13(1): 25-28
- Houart, R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp.
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