Cataegis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cataegidae.[2]
| Cataegis Temporal range:
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| fossil Cataegis godineauensis from the late Miocene | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Seguenzioidea |
| Family: | Cataegidae |
| Genus: | Cataegis McLean & Quinn, 1987 |
| Type species | |
| Cataegis toreuta McLean & Quinn, 1987
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Species edit
Species within the genus Cataegis include:
- Cataegis celebesensis McLean & Quinn, 1987
- Cataegis finkli (Petuch, 1987)
- † Cataegis godineauensis Van Winkle, 1919[1]
- Cataegis leucogranulatus (Fu & Sun, 2006)
- † Cataegis nakagawensis Kaim, R. G. Jenkins & Hikida, 2009
- Cataegis pleres Vilvens, 2016
- Cataegis stroggile Vilvens, 2016
- Cataegis tallorbioides Vilvens, 2016
- Species brought into synonymy
- Cataegis meroglypta McLean & Quinn, 1987:[3] synonym of Kanoia meroglypta (McLean & Quinn, 1987) (original combination)
- Cataegis toreuta McLean & Quinn, 1987: synonym of Cataegis finkli (Petuch, 1987)
See also edit
References edit
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- ^ a b Kiel S. & Hansen B. T. (2015). "Cenozoic Methane-Seep Faunas of the Caribbean Region". PLoS ONE 10(10): e0140788. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140788.
- ^ Cataegis. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 September 2010.
- ^ Cataegis meroglypta McLean & Quinn, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
- McLean J.H. & Quinn J.F. (1987). Cataegis, new genus of three new species from the continental slope (Trochidae: Cataeginae New subfamily). The Nautilus. 101(3): 111-116.
- Warén A. & Bouchet P. (1993) New records, species, genera, and a new family of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps. Zoologica Scripta 22: 1-90.