Agnewia

Agnewia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]

Agnewia
Agnewia tritoniformis shells
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Clade: Caenogastropoda
Clade: Hypsogastropoda
Clade: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Muricoidea
Family: Muricidae
Subfamily: Rapaninae
Genus: Agnewia
Tenison Woods, 1878
Type species
Adamsia typica
Dunker, 1857
Species

See text

Synonyms[1]
  • * Adamsia Dunker, 1857 (Invalid: junior homonym of Adamsia Forbes, 1840 [Cnidaria]; Agnewia is a replacement name)
  • Cheletropis Forbes, 1852

Species

Species within the genus Agnewia include:

Species brought into synonymy
  • Agnewia nautica Thornley, 1952: synonym of Agnewia tritoniformis (Blainville, 1832)
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References

  • Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102.


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