Xymene

Taxobox
name = "Xymene"


image_caption = "Xymene ambiguus"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
familia = Muricidae
subfamilia = Muricinae
genus = "Xymene"
genus_authority = Iredale, 1915
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

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

Distribution

This genus is endemic to New Zealand.

Species

* "Xymene ambiguus" (Philippi, 1844)
* "Xymene aucklandicus" (E. A. Smith, 1902)
* "Xymene convexus" (Suter, 1909)
* "Xymene gouldi" (Cossmann, 1903)
* "Xymene huttoni" (Murdoch, 1900)
* "Xymene mortenseni caudatinus" (Finlay, 1930)
* "Xymene mortenseni mortenseni" (Odhner, 1924)
* "Xymene plebius" (Hutton, 1873)
* "Xymene pulcherrimus" (Finlay, 1930)
* "Xymene pumilus" (Suter, 1909)
* "Xymene teres" (Finlay, 1930)
* "Xymene traversi" (Hutton, 1873)
* "Xymene warreni" Ponder, 1972

References

* Powell A W B, "New Zealand Mollusca", William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1