Thais (genus)

Taxobox
name = "Thais"

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image_caption = "Thais clavigera"
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Mollusca
classis = Gastropoda
subclassis = Orthogastropoda
superordo = Caenogastropoda
ordo = Sorbeoconcha
subordo = Hypsogastropoda
infraordo = Neogastropoda
superfamilia = Muricoidea
familia = Muricidae
subfamilia = Rapaninae
genus = "Thais"
genus_authority = Röding, 1798
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision = See text.

"Thais" sometimes known as dog winkles, is a genus of medium to large predatory sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock shells.

Habitat

"Thais" species live in rocky environments close to shore or in the intertidal zone.

hell description

The shell is generally squat, short-spired, and solid, with a large body whorl. The sculpture varies according to the species, but it generally consists of ribs, riblets, nodules, and tubercles.

The shell length is from about 2 to 13 cm, depending on the species.

Life habits

These animals are predatory, like almost all the muricids.

pecies within the genus "Thais"

* "Thais bronni"
* "Thais bufo"
* "Thais clavigera"
* "Thais chocolata" - (Duclos, 1832) - Locate
* "Thais coronata" (Lamarck, 1822)
* "Thais delessertiana" (D'Orbigny, 1841)
* "Thais deltoidea" (Lamarck, 1822) - deltoid rocksnail
* "Thais emarginata"
* "Thais haemastoma" (Linnaeus, 1758)
** "Thais haemastoma canaliculata" (J. E. Gray, 1839)
** "Thais haemastoma floridana" (Conrad, 1837) Florida rocksnail
** "Thais haemastoma haemastoma" (Linnaeus, 1758)
** "Thais haemastoma haysae" Clench, 1927
* "Thais kiosquiformis" (Duclos, 1832)
* "Thais lamellosa"
* "Thais lapillus" Linnaeus, 1758, the dog whelk
* "Thais nodosa" Linnaeus, 1758
* "Thais orbita" (Gmelin, 1791) - White rock shell
* "Thais rustica" (Lamarck, 1822) Rustic rocksnail
* "Thais savignyi"
* "Thais speciosa" (Valenciennes, 1832)
* "Thais stellata" Röding, 1798
* "Thais triangularis" (Blainville, 1832)
* "Thais trinidadensis" M. Smith, 1939
* "Thais trinitatensis" (Guppy, 1869)
* "Thais undata" Lamarck
* "Thais woodwardi" (Roxo)

References

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* R. Tucker Abbott, Percy A. Morris, Roger Tory Peterson, (1995), "A Field Guide to Shells of the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts and the West Indies" Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, New York (Peterson Field Guide Series)
* Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. (1962) "Marine Molluscs of Victoria". Melbourne University Press & The National Museum of Victoria