Pugilina

Pugilina is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Melongenidae, the crown conches and their allies.[2]

Pugilina
Five views of a shell of Pugilina morio
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
(unranked):
clade Caenogastropoda
clade Hypsogastropoda
clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:
Buccinoidea
Family:
Melongenidae
Genus:
Pugilina

Type species
Murex morio Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms

Cassidulus Gray, 1854 (invalid: junior homonym of Cassidulus Lamarck, 1801 [Echinodermata])

Species

Species within the genus Pugilina include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Subgenus Pugilina (Hemifusus) Swainson, 1840: synonym of Hemifusus Swainson, 1840
  • Pugilina carnaria Röding, 1798: synonym of Volegalea carnaria (Röding, 1798)
  • Pugilina cochlidium (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Volegalea cochlidium (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Pugilina colosseus Lamarck, 1816: synonym of Hemifusus colosseus (Lamarck, 1816)
  • Pugilina crassicaudus Philippi, 1849: synonym of Hemifusus crassicauda (Philippi, 1849)
  • Pugilina dirki Nolf, 2007: synonym of Volegalea dirki (Nolf, 2007)
  • Pugilina laevis Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Volema pyrum (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Pugilina pugilina (Born, 1778): synonym of Volegalea cochlidium (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Pugilina ternatanus (Gmelin, 1791): synonym of Hemifusus ternatanus (Gmelin, 1791)
  • Pugilina tuba Gmelin, 1791: synonym of Hemifusus tuba (Gmelin, 1791)

References
  1. Schumacher (1817). Ess. Vers test. 65: 216.
  2. Bouchet, P. (2015). Pugilina Schumacher, 1817. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224383 on 2015-12-02
  • Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp.


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