Taranis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Conoidea |
| Family: | Raphitomidae |
| Genus: | Taranis Jeffreys, 1870 |
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| Trophon moerchii Malm, 1861
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This genus was formerly placed in subfamily Borsoniinae, family Turridae in Vaught (1989).
The name Taranis is the Latinised name of the Gallic thunder god Taran. It is therefore a masculine name.
Description edit
The species in this genus are characterized by the absence of a radula together with the loss or reduction of a number of other features of foregut anatomy (as described by Kantor & Sysoev (1989) ).[2][3]
Species edit
Species within the genus Taranis include:[1]
- Taranis adenensis Morassi & Bonfitto, 2013
- † Taranis aliena (Marwick, 1965)
- Taranis allo (Lamy, 1934)
- Taranis benthicola (Dell, 1956)
- Taranis borealis Bouchet & Warén, 1980
- † Taranis circumflexa (Hornung, 1920)
- Taranis columbella Kilburn, 1991
- Taranis granata (Hedley, 1922)
- Taranis gratiosa (Suter, 1908)
- Taranis imporcata (Dell, 1962)
- Taranis inkasa Kilburn, 1991
- Taranis laevisculpta Monterosato, 1880
- Taranis leptalea (Verrill, 1884)
- Taranis mayi (Verco, 1909)
- Taranis miranda Thiele, 1925
- Taranis moerchii (Malm, 1861)
- Taranis nexilis (Hutton, 1885)
- Taranis panope Dall, 1919
- Taranis percarinata Powell, 1967
- Taranis rhytismeis (Melvill, 1910)
- Taranis spirulata (Dell, 1962)
- Taranis tanata Figueira & Absalão, 2010
- Taranis ticaonica Powell, 1967
- Taranis turritispira (Smith E. A., 1882)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Taranis aculeata May, 1915: synonym of Nepotilla aculeata (May, 1915)
- Taranis albatrossi Nordsieck, 1971: synonym of Drilliola emendata (Monterosato, 1872)
- Taranis alexandrina Sturany, 1896: synonym of Taranis moerchii (Malm, 1861)
- Taranis amoena G.O. Sars, 1878: synonym of Nepotilla amoena (Sars G. O., 1878)
- Taranis amphitrites Kilburn, 1991: synonym of Taranidaphne amphitrites Morassi & Bonfitto, 2001
- Taranis cirrata (Brugnone, 1862): synonym of Taranis moerchii (Malm, 1861)
- Taranis corneus Okutani, 1966: synonym of Cryptogemma cornea (Okutani, 1966)
- Taranis demersa Tiberi, 1868: synonym of Taranis moerchi (Malm, 1861)
- Taranis emendata Monterosato, 1872: synonym of Drilliola emendata (Monterosato, 1872)
- Taranis japonicus Okutani, 1964: synonym of Cryptogemma japonica (Okutani, 1964)
- Taranis jousseaumei Lamy, 1934: synonym of Taranis allo (Jousseaume, 1934)
- Taranis malmii (Dall, 1889): synonym of Mioawateria malmii (Dall, 1889)
- Taranis microscopica May, 1915: synonym of Nepotilla microscopica (May, 1915) (original combination)
- Taranis moerchi [sic]: synonym of Taranis moerchii (Malm, 1861)
- Taranis monterosatoi Locard, 1897: synonym of Oenopota graphica (Locard, 1897)
- Taranis nezi Okutani, 1964: synonym of Nepotilla nezi (Okutani, 1964)
- Taranis parvulum Locard, 1897: synonym of Taranis borealis Bouchet & Warén, 1980
- Taranis pulchella Verrill, 1880: synonym of Drilliola loprestiana (Calcara, 1841)
- Taranis tholoides Watson, 1882 : synonym of Kryptos tholoides (Watson, 1882)
- Taranis thomsoni Mestayer, 1919: synonym of Taranis nexilis bicarinata (Suter, 1915)
- Taranis tornata Verrill, 1884 : synonym of Taranis moerchi tornata Verrill, 1884
- Taranis zeuxippe Dall, 1919: synonym of Microdrillia zeuxippe (Dall, 1919)
References edit
- ^ a b c Taranis Jeffreys, 1870. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 14 September 2010.
- ^ Kilburn, R. N. "Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 5. Subfamily Taraninae." Annals of the Natal Museum 32.1 (1991): 325-339
- ^ KANTOR, Y. I. & SYSOEV, A. V. 1989. The morphology of toxoglossan gastropods lacking a radula, with a description of a new species and genus of Turridae. J. Moll. Stud. 55 (4): 537-549.
- 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
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
- Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp.
External links edit
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Taranis (gastropod).
- Tucker, J.K. (2004). "Catalog of recent and fossil turrids (Mollusca: Gastropoda)" (PDF). Zootaxa. 682: 1–1295. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.682.1.1.
- Jeffreys, J. G. (1870). Norwegian Mollusca. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. (4) 5: 438-448
- Jousseaume F. (1934). Description d'un gastropode nouveau de la Mer Rouge. [Posthumous publication edited by E. Lamy]. Journal de Conchyliologie. 78(1): 67-71
- Finlay H.J. (1926). New shells from New Zealand Tertiary beds: Part 2. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 227-258, pls 55-60
- Kilburn, R.N. (1991) Turridae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 5. Subfamily Taraninae. Annals of the Natal Museum, 32, 325–339
- Worldwide Mollusc Species Data Base: Raphitomidae