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Simnia

{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| image = Simnia spelta (Linnaeus, 1758) 1.jpg

| image_caption = a live Simnia spelta on soft coral Leptogorgia sarmentosa

| image2 = Simnia fusulina (MNHN-IM-2000-3780).jpeg

| image2_caption =Shell of † Simnia fusulina (holotype at MNHN, Paris)

| taxon = Simnia

| authority = Risso, 1826{{No-gastropod-genus-ref}}

| type_species = Simnia nicaeensis

| type_species_authority = Risso, 1826

| synonyms_ref =

| synonyms =

  • Amphiperas (Neosimnia) P. Fischer, 1884
  • Amphiperas(Simnia) Risso, 1826
  • Neosimnia P. Fischer, 1884
  • Ovula (Neosimnia) P. Fischer, 1884 (original rank)
  • Ovula (Simnia) Risso, 1826
  • Simia [sic] (misspelling)
  • Simnia (Neosimnia) P. Fischer, 1884
  • Spiculata Cate, 1973
  • Subsimnia C. N. Cate, 1973

}}

Simnia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Ovulidae.{{WRMS species|138307|Simnia Risso, 1826|||Gofas, S. (2010). Simnia Risso, 1826. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138307 on 18 December 2011}}

Taxonomy

Dolin & Ledon (2002) considered that the lectotype of Simnia nicaeensis Risso, 1826, type species of Simnia, is a juvenile specimen of Simnia spelta (Linnaeus, 1758) type species of Neosimnia Fischer, 1884. This makes Simnia an objective synonym of Neosimnia. Accordingly, all the species treated in Lorenz & Fehse (2009) under Neosimnia should thereby be accepted under Simnia. Likewise, all the species treated by Lorenz & Fehse (2009) under Simnia should thereby be accepted under Xandarovula Cate, 1973.

The assumptions of Dolin (Dolin & Ledon, 2002) are based on interpretations but not on the examination of the type material. Fehse (2016) has confirmed the vaility of the genus Neosimnia because the lectotype of Simnia nicaeensis Risso, 1826, type species of Simnia, is never a juvenile specimen of Simnia spelta (Linnaeus, 1758) type species of Neosimnia Fischer, 1884.

Species

The valid assignment of the taxa are found in Lorenz & Fehse, 2009.

The assumption of Dolin prepared the following chaos:

Species within the genus Simnia include:

;Species brought into synonymy:

References

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  • [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25505 Dall W.H. 1889. Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College, 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40]
  • Cate C.N. (1973). A Systematic Revision of the Recent Cypraeid Family Ovulidae. The Veliger, Vol 15, Supplement.
  • 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
  • [http://www.mnhn.fr/publication/geodiv/g02n2a4.pdf Dolin L. & Ledon D., 2002. Nouveaux taxons et discussion de la systématique des genres correspondants d'Ovulidae (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) de l'Éocène inférieur de Gan (France). Geodiversitas 24(2): 329-347]
  • Fehse, D. (2016): Superfamilia Cypraeoidea J.E. Gray, 1824 - In: Stein, G. Moths, H. Albrecht, F. Havekost, U. & Fehse, D. (eds.): Revision der miozänen Molluskenfauna (Hemmoorium) von Werder bei Achim (Nordwest-Niedersachsen): 33-41, pls. 16-19, text figs. 8-13. – Palaeofocus, 5: 1-289, pls. 1-76, text figs. 1-93, tabs. 1-5.

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Category:Ovulidae

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