Enigmaticolus

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

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|image_caption = Shell of Enigmaticolus monnieri (holotype at MNHN, Paris)

|taxon= Enigmaticolus

|authority= Fraussen, 2008

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|type_species = Enigmaticolus monnieri

|type_species_authority = Fraussen, 2008

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Enigmaticolus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eosiphonidae, the true whelks and their allies.{{WRMS species|456406|Enigmaticolus Fraussen, 2008||17 April 2010}}

Species

Species within the genus Enigmaticolus include:

  • Enigmaticolus desbruyeresi (Okutani & Ohta, 1993){{cite journal|author1=Chong Chen|author2=Ting Xu|author3=Koen Fraussen|author4=Jian-Wen Qiu|title=Integrative taxonomy of enigmatic deep-sea true whelks in the sister-genera Enigmaticolus and Thermosipho (Gastropoda: Buccinidae)|journal=Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society|volume=193|issue=1|year=2021|pages=230–240| url= https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa134| doi=10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa134|url-access=subscription}}
  • Enigmaticolus marshalli Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2016
  • Enigmaticolus nipponensis (Okutani & Fujiwara, 2000)
  • Enigmaticolus semisulcatus (K. Martin, 1933)
  • Enigmaticolus voluptarius Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2016

;Synonyms:

  • Enigmaticolus auzendei (A. Warén & P. Bouchet, 2001): synonym of Thermosipho auzendei (A. Warén & P. Bouchet, 2001)
  • Enigmaticolus inflatus S.-Q. Zhang, S.-P. Zhang & H. Chen, 2020: synonym of Enigmaticolus nipponensis (Okutani & Fujiwara, 2000)
  • Enigmaticolus monnieri Fraussen, 2008:{{WRMS species|457385|Enigmaticolus monnieri Fraussen, 2008||17 April 2010}} synonym of Enigmaticolus nipponensis (Okutani & Fujiwara, 2000)

References

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  • Fraussen K. 2008. Enigmaticolus, a new genus of deep water buccinids (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) with description of a new species from Madagascar. Gloria Maris, 46(4-5): 74-82
  • Fraussen, K.; Stahlschmidt, P. (2016). The extensive Indo-Pacific deep-water radiation of Manaria E.A. Smith, 1906 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) and related genera, with descriptions of 21 new species. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 208: 363–456.