Stigmaulax
{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
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| image = Stigmaulax sulcatus (grooved moon snail) (San Salvador Island, Bahamas) 1 (16005007609).jpg
| image_caption = Stigmaulax sulcatus (Born, 1778) - abapertural view of a grooved moonsnail shell, 0.75 cm tall.
| display_parents = 3
| taxon = Stigmaulax
| authority = Mörch, 1852
| type_species = Nerita sulcata
| type_species_authority = Born, 1778
| synonyms_ref =
| synonyms = Aloconatica Shikama, 1971
}}
Stigmaulax is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Naticinae of the family Naticidae, the moon snails.{{WRMS species|416020|Stigmaulax Mörch, 1852|||WoRMS (2010). Stigmaulax. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at
Species
Species within the genus Stigmaulax include:
- Stigmaulax cancellatus (Hermann, 1781){{WRMS species|419770|Stigmaulax cancellatus (Hermann, 1781)||16 June 2010}}
- Stigmaulax cayennensis (Récluz, 1850){{WRMS species|419771|Stigmaulax cayennensis (Récluz, 1850)||16 June 2010}}
- Stigmaulax elenae (Récluz, 1844)
- Stigmaulax kushime (Shikama, 1971)
- Stigmaulax sulcatus (Born, 1778){{WRMS species|419772|Stigmaulax sulcatus (Born, 1778)||16 June 2010}}
References
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- Shikama, T. 1971. On some noteworthy marine gastropoda from southwestern Japan (III). Science Reports of the Yokohama National University, section 2 (Geol.), 18:27-35, pl. 3.
- Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls.
External links
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- [https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/12921 Mörch, O. A. L. (1852-1853). Catalogus conchyliorum quae reliquit D. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, Regis Daniae Cubiculariorum Princeps, Ordinis Dannebrogici in Prima Classe & Ordinis Caroli Tertii Eques. Fasc. 1, Cephalophora, 170 pp. (1852); Fasc. 2, Acephala, Annulata, Cirripedia, Echinodermata, 74 (+2) pp. (1853). Hafniae (Copenhagen): L. Klein.]
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