Doxander is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[1]

Doxander
Five views of a shell of Doxander vittatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Superfamily: Stromboidea
Family: Strombidae
Genus: Doxander
Wenz, 1940
Type species
Doxander vittatus vittatus

The name Doxander was originally given by Iredale to this genus in 1931.[2] But since he did not provide a description, the name Doxander, Iredale, 1931 is no longer available under Art. 13.1 of the ICZN Code.

Species

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Species within the genus Doxander include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Doxander apicatus (Man in't Veld, L.A. & G.J. Visser, 1993): synonym of Doxander operosus (Röding, 1798)

References

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  1. ^ a b Doxander Wenz, 1940. WoRMS (2009). Doxander. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=531655 on 29 March 2011 .
  2. ^ Records of the Australian Museum (1931), 18(4): 212, 232)
  • Wenz, W. (1938-1944). Gastropoda. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. xii + 1639 pp. In: Schindewolf, O.H. (Ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6. Bornträger, Berlin.
  • Liverani V. (2014) The superfamily Stromboidea. Addenda and corrigenda. In: G.T. Poppe, K. Groh & C. Renker (eds), A conchological iconography. pp. 1-54, pls 131-164. Harxheim: Conchbooks
  • Dekkers A.M. & Maxwell S.J. (2020). An examination of the relationships between extant Dolomena Wenz, 1940, Doxander Wenz, 1940, Mirabilistrombus Kronenberg, 1998, Neodilatilabrum Dekkers, 2008 and Labiostrombus Oostingh, 1925 (Stromboidea: Neostromboidae: Strombidae). The Festivus. 52(1): 39-59
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