Swainsonia

Swainsonia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Imbricariinae of the family Mitridae.[2]

Swainsonia
Swainsonia fissurata shells
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Mitridae
Subfamily: Imbricariinae
Genus: Swainsonia
H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853[1]
Type species
Mitra fissurata
Lamarck, 1811
Synonyms
  • Cylindra (Swainsonia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 (original rank)
  • Mitrella Swainson, 1831 (invalid: junior homonym of Mitrella Risso, 1826 [Columbellidae]; Swainsonia is a replacement name)
  • Scabricola (Swainsonia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

Species

Species within the genus Swainsonia include:[2]

Species brought into synonymy
  • Swainsonia albina (A. Adams, 1853): synonym of Scabricola albina (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Swainsonia bicolor (Swainson, 1824): synonym of Scabricola bicolor (Swainson, 1824)
  • Swainsonia cloveri (Cernohorsky, 1971): synonym of Imbricaria cloveri (Cernohorsky, 1971)
  • Swainsonia incisa (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850): synonym of Scabricola incisa (A. Adams & Reeve, 185o)
  • Swainsonia mariae (A. Adams, 1853): synonym of Scabricola mariae (A. Adams, 1853)
  • Swainsonia millepunctata (Schepman, 1911) : synonym of Cancilla schepmani (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)
  • Swainsonia olivaeformis (Swainson, 1821): synonym of Scabricola olivaeformis (Swainson, 1821)
  • Swainsonia schepmani (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003): synonym of Cancilla schepmani (Salisbury & Guillot de Suduiraut, 2003)

References

  1. Adams (1853). Gen. Moll. 1: 180.
  2. Swainsonia. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 December 2018.
  3. Swainsonia fissurata Lamarck. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 24 April 2010.
  • Cernohorsky W. O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world (Part 2). Monographs of Marine Mollusca 4.


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