Tectarius
{{Short description|Genus of gastropods}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| image = Littorinidae - Tectarius coronatus.JPG
| image_caption = Shell of Tectarius coronatus at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
| taxon = Tectarius
| type_species = Tectarius coronatus
| type_species_authority = Valenciennes, 1833
| synonyms =
- Cidaris Röding, 1798 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cidaris Leske, 1778 [Echinodermata])
- Echinella Swainson, 1840
- Echinellopsis Rovereto, 1899
- Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942
- Liralittorina Rosewater, 1981
- Nina Gray, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Nina Horsfield, 1829 [Lepidoptera]; Echininus is a replacement name)
- Pagodella Swainson, 1840
- Pagodus Gray, 1839
- Tectaria (misspelling)
- Tectarius (Echininiopsis) D.G. Reid, 1989
- Tectarius (Echininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942
- Tectarius (Tectininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942
- Tectininus Clench & Abbott, 1942
}}
Tectarius is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.{{WRMS species|204037|Tectarius Valenciennes, 1833|||Reid, David G. (2010). Tectarius Valenciennes, 1833. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at
Species
Species within the genus Tectarius include:
- Tectarius antonii (Philippi, 1846){{WRMS species|419569|Tectarius antonii (Philippi, 1846)||6 June 2010}}
- Tectarius coronatus Valenciennes, 1833{{WRMS species|446936|Tectarius coronatus (Valenciennes, 1832)||6 June 2010}}
- Tectarius cumingii (Philippi, 1846){{WRMS species|446937|Tectarius cumingii (Philippi, 1846)||6 June 2010}}
- Tectarius grandinatus (Gmelin, 1791){{WRMS species|446938|Tectarius grandinatus (Gmelin, 1791)||6 June 2010}}
- Tectarius niuensis Reid & Geller, 1997{{WRMS species|445514|Tectarius niuensis Reid & Geller, 1997||6 June 2010}}
- Tectarius pagodus (Linnaeus, 1758){{WRMS species|446939|Tectarius pagodus (Linnaeus, 1758)||6 June 2010}}
- Tectarius rusticus (Philippi, 1846){{WRMS species|446940|Tectarius rusticus (Philippi, 1846)||6 June 2010}}
- Tectarius spinulosus (Philippi, 1847){{WRMS species|446941|Tectarius spinulosus (Philippi, 1847)||6 June 2010}}
- Tectarius striatus (King & Broderip, 1832){{WRMS species|449148|Tectarius striatus (King & Broderip, 1832)||6 June 2010}}
- Tectarius tectumpersicum (Linnaeus, 1758){{WRMS species|446942|Tectarius tectumpersicum (Linnaeus, 1758)||6 June 2010}}
- Tectarius viviparus (Rosewater, 1982){{WRMS species|445512|Tectarius viviparus (Rosewater, 1982)||6 June 2010}}
;Species brought into synonymy:
- Tectarius bullatus (Martyn, 1784): synonym of Tectarius grandinatus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Tectarius feejeensis (Reeve, 1857): synonym of Echinolittorina feejeensis (Reeve, 1857)
- Tectarius granosus (Philippi, 1845):{{WRMS species|225172|Tectarius granosus (Philippi, 1845)||6 June 2010}} synonym of Echinolittorina granosa (Philippi, 1845)
- Tectarius miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832): synonym of Echinolittorina miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
- Tectarius montrouzieri P. Fischer, 1878: synonym of Perrinia angulifera (A. Adams, 1853)
- Tectarius muricatus (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Cenchritis muricatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subgenus Tectarius (Echininus) represented as Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942 (alternate representation)
References
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Further reading
- Bandel, K. & D. Kadolsky (1982). Western Atlantic Species of Nodolittorina (Gastropda: Prosobranchia): comparative morphology and its functional, ecological, phylogenetic and taxonomic implications. Veliger 25 (1): 1-42.
- Reid D.G. (1989). Systematic revision of the Recent species of Peasiella Nevill, 1885 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae), with notes on the fossil species. The Nautilus 103(2): 43-69
- Reid D.G. & Geller J.B. (1997). A new ovoviviparious species of Tectarius (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) from Niue, South Pacific, with a molecular phylogeny of the genus. Journal of Molluscan Studies 63:207-233
External links
- {{Commons category-inline|Tectarius|Tectarius}}
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