Theta is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
| Theta | |
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| Shell of Theta chariessa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Theta A.H. Clark, 1959 |
| Type species | |
| Pleurotomella (Theta) lyronuclea A. H. Clarke, 1959 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
Pleurotomella (Theta) A. H. Clarke, 1959 (original rank) | |
Species
Species within the genus Theta include:[1]
- Theta baiocchii Nappo & Pellegrini, 2021
- Theta chariessa (Watson, 1881)
- Theta lyronuclea (Clarke A.H., 1959)
- Theta microcostellata Criscione, Hallan, Puillandre & Fedosov, 2021
- Theta polita Criscione, Hallan, Puillandre & Fedosov, 2021
- Theta spicea (Watson, 1881)
- Theta vayssierei (Dautzenberg, 1925)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Theta chrysoplex (Barnard, 1963): synonym of Gymnobela chrysopelex (Barnard, 1963)
- Theta lanceata (Dall, 1927): synonym of Gymnobela lanceata Dall, 1927
- Synonyms
- Theta lanceata (Dall, 1927) : synonym of Gymnobela lanceata Dall, 1927
References
- Clarke, A. H. (1959). New abyssal molluscs from off Bermuda collected by the Lamont Geological Observatory. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 33(5): 231–238, pl. 13
- Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1980). Revision of the North-East Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. Suppl. 8: 1-119
- Spencer, H.; Marshall. B. (2009). All Mollusca except Opisthobranchia. In: Gordon, D. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand Inventory of Biodiversity. Volume One: Kingdom Animalia. 584 pp
- Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
- Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Sysoev A. & Puillandre N. (2011) A new operational classification of the Conoidea. Journal of Molluscan Studies 77: 273–308.
External links
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- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae
- Criscione, F.; Hallan, A.; Fedosov, A.; Puillandre, N. (2021). Deep Downunder: Integrative taxonomy of Austrobela, Spergo, Theta and Austrotheta (Gastropoda: Conoidea: Raphitomidae) from the deep sea of Australia. Journal of Zoological Systematics and Evolutionary Research. DOI 10.1111/jzs.12512.