Iphitus (gastropod)

Iphitus
Shell of Iphitus escondida (specimen at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Epitonioidea
Family:	Epitoniidae
Genus:	Iphitus Jeffreys, 1883
Type species
Iphitus tuberatus Jeffreys, 1883
Synonyms
Iphitella Thiele, 1925 (Unnecessary replacement) Sculptifer Beu & Climo, 1974 Stylotrochus Seguenza, 1876 (Invalid: junior homonym of Stylotrochus Haeckel, 1862)

Iphitus is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropods in the family Epitoniidae of the superfamily Epitonioidea, the wentletraps, the purple snails, and their allies.

Species

Species within the genus Iphitus include:

• Iphitus boucheti Poppe & Tagaro, 2016
• Iphitus cancellatus Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896
• Iphitus clarki L. G. Brown, 2019
• Iphitus escondida Poppe & Tagaro, 2016
• Iphitus neozelanicus (Dell, 1956)
• Iphitus notios Pimenta, Andrade & Absalão, 2018
• Iphitus robertsi Sabelli & Taviani, 1997
• Iphitus tenuisculptus (Seguenza, 1876)
• Iphitus tuberatus Jeffreys, 1883
• Iphitus wareni L. G. Brown, 2019

Species brought into synonymy

• Iphitus marshalli (Sykes, 1925): synonym of Iphitus tenuisculptus (Seguenza, 1876)
• Iphitus reticulatus Dall, 1927: synonym of Iphitus cancellatus Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896
• Iphitus tenerrimus Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1896: synonym of Alora tenerrima (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896)
• Iphitus tuberculatus Watson, 1886: synonym of Sansonia tuberculata (Watson, 1886)

References

• Marinespecies

External links

• Jeffreys J.G. 1883. On the Mollusca procured during the 'Lightning' and 'Porcupine' expeditions 1868-70. (Part VI). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 1882: 88-149, pl. 19, 20
• Beu, A. G.; Climo, F. M. (1974). Mollusca from a recent coral community in Palliser Bay, Cook Strait. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research. 8(2): 307-332
• https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3907.1.1
• Bouchet, P. & Warén, A. (1986). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Aclididae Eulimidae, Epitonidae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico. suppl. 2: 297-576
• Serge GOFAS, Ángel A. LUQUE, Joan Daniel OLIVER,José TEMPLADO & Alberto SERRA (2021) - The Mollusca of Galicia Bank (NE Atlantic Ocean); European Journal of Taxonomy 785: 1–114