Stramonita

Stramonita is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

Stramonita
Stramonita haemastoma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Stramonita Schumacher, 1817
Synonyms[1]
Purpura (Stramonita) Thais (Stramonita)

Species

The genus Stramonita contains the following species:[1]

• Stramonita biserialis (Blainville, 1832)
• Stramonita brasiliensis Claremont & D.G. Reid, 2011
• Stramonita canaliculata (Gray, 1839)
• Stramonita chocolata (Duclos, 1832)
• Stramonita delessertiana (Orbigny, 1841)
• Stramonita floridana (Conrad, 1837)
• Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Stramonita rustica (Lamarck, 1822)

Species brought into synonymy

• Stramonita bicarinata (Blainville, 1832): synonym of Stramonita rustica (Lamarck, 1822)
• Stramonita blainvillei (Deshayes, 1844): synonym of Stramonita delessertiana (Orbigny, 1841)
• Stramonita hederacea Schumacher, 1817: synonym of Nassa serta (Bruguière, 1789)

References

1. Stramonita Schumacher, 1817. 5 April 2010. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species.

• Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213
• Claremont M., Williams S.T., Barraclough T.G. & Reid D.G. (2011) The geographic scale of speciation in a marine snail with high dispersal potential. Journal of Biogeography 38: 1016-1032.