Tegula is a genus of small to medium-sized sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Tegulidae.[2]
| Tegula | |
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| A live individual of Tegula pulligo in situ | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Order: | Trochida |
| Superfamily: | Trochoidea |
| Family: | Tegulidae |
| Genus: | Tegula Lesson, 1835[1] |
| Type species | |
| Tegula elegans Lesson, 1832 | |
| Synonyms[2] | |
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Biology
The function of the heart in Tegula snails may have a critical importance for their temperature tolerance.[3]
Species
Species within the genus Tegula include:
- Tegula argyrostoma (Gmelin, 1791)
- Tegula atra (Lesson, 1830)[4]
- Tegula aureotincta (Forbes, 1850) - gilded tegula[5]
- Tegula bergeroni McLean, 1970[6]
- Tegula brunnea Philippi, 1848 - brown tegula:[5]
- Tegula cooksoni (E.A. Smith, 1877)[7]
- Tegula corrugata (A. Adams, 1853)
- Tegula corteziana Mclean, 1970[5]
- Tegula corvus (Philippi, 1850)[8]
- Tegula eiseni Jordan, 1936 - banded tegula, western banded tegula[5]
- Tegula euryomphala (Jonas, 1844)
- Tegula excavata (Lamarck, 1822) - green-base tegula[5]
- Tegula felipensis McLean, 1970
- Tegula funebralis (A. Adams, 1855) - black tegula:[5]
- Tegula gallina (Forbes, 1850) - speckled tegula[5]
- Tegula globulus (Carpenter, 1857)[9]
- Tegula gruneri (Philippi, 1849) - gem tegula[5]
- Tegula hotessieriana (d'Orbigny, 1842) - Caribbean tegula[5]
- Tegula ignota Ramírez-Böhme, 1976
- Tegula kusairo Yamazaki, Hirano, Chiba & Fukuda, 2020
- Tegula ligulata (Menke, 1850)
- Tegula luctuosa (d'Orbigny, 1841)
- Tegula mariana Dall, 1919[5]
- Tegula melaleucos (Jonas, 1844)[10]
- Tegula montereyi (Kiener, 1850) Monterey tegula:[5]
- Tegula nigerrima (Gmelin, 1791)
- Tegula panamensis (Philippi, 1849)[11]
- Tegula patagonica (d'Orbigny, 1840)[5]
- Tegula pellisserpentis Wood, 1828[5]
- Tegula pfeifferi (Philiippi, 1846)
- Tegula picta McLean, 1970[12]
- Tegula pulligo (Gmelin, 1791) - dusky tegula[5]
- Tegula puntagordana Weisbord, 1962[13]
- Tegula quadricostata (W. Wood, 1828)
- Tegula regina Stearns, 1892 - queen tegula[5]
- Tegula rubroflammulata (Koch in Philippi, 1843)[5]
- Tegula rugata (A. Gould, 1861)
- Tegula rugosa (A. Adams, 1853)[14]
- Tegula snodgrassi (Pilsbry & Vanatta, 1902)[15]
- Tegula tridentata (Potiez & Michaud, 1838)
- Tegula turbinata (A. Adams, 1853)
- Tegula verdispira J. H. McLean, 1970[5]
- Tegula verrucosa McLean, 1970[16]
- Tegula xanthostigma (A. Adams, 1853)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Tegula argyrostoma (Gmelin, 1791):[17] synonym of Chlorostoma lischkei (Tapparone-Canefri, 1874)
- Tegula elegans Lesson, 1832: synonym of Tegula pellisserpentis (Wood, 1828)
- Tegula fasciata (Born, 1778) - silky tegula:[5] synonym of Agathistoma fasciatum (Born, 1778) (recombination)
- Tegula fuscescens Philippi, R.A., 1845: synonym of Tegula patagonica (Orbigny, A.V.M.D. d', 1835)
- Tegula ligulata (Menke, 1850):[18] synonym of Tegula ligulata mariamadrae Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932
- Tegula lischkei (Tapparone-Canefri, 1874): synonym of Chlorostoma lischkei (Tapparone-Canefri, 1874)
- Tegula lividomaculata (C. B. Adams, 1845) - West Indian tegula:[5] synonym of Agathistoma lividomaculatum (C. B. Adams, 1845) (recombination)
- Tegula maculostriata (C. B. Adams):[5] synonym of Tegula hotessieriana (d’Orbigny, 1842)
- Tegula mendella McLean, J.H., 1964: synonym of Tegula eiseni Jordan, 1936
- Tegula phalera Weisbord, 1962: synonym of Tegula puntagordana Weisbord, 1962
- Tegula rustica (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Omphalius rusticus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Tegula scalaris (C.B. Adams, 1845): synonym of Tegula lividomaculata (C. B. Adams, 1845)
- Tegula trilirata Weisbord, 1962: synonym of Tegula puntagordana Weisbord, 1962
- Tegula umbilicata Lischke, C.E. in Iwakawa, 1919: synonym of Chlorostoma argyrostoma turbinata (Adams, A., 1853); synonym of Tegula argyrostoma turbinatum A. Adams, 1853
- Tegula viridula (Gmelin, 1791):[5] synonym of Agathistoma viridulum (Gmelin, 1791)
References
- Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506
External links
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