Scaphander

Scaphander
Three preserved specimens of Scaphander lignarius, from left to right, the anterior, anterior, and posterior ends are at the top of the image
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Heterobranchia clade Euopisthobranchia clade Cephalaspidea
Superfamily:	?
Family:	Scaphandridae
Genus:	Scaphander Montfort, 1810
Type species
Bulla lignaria Linnaeus, 1758
Species
See text
Synonyms
Assula Schumacher, 1817 Bucconia Dall, 1890 Bullocardia F. Nordsieck, 1972 Eoscaphander Habe, 1952 Nipponoscaphander Kuroda & Habe, in Kuroda, Habe & Oyama, 1971 Tricla Philippson, 1788 (Invalid: Placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 287)

Scaphander is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Scaphandridae, the canoe bubbles.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Scaphander include:

• Scaphander alatus: synonym of Scaphander mundus Watson, 1883
• Scaphander andamanicus
• Scaphander bathymophila Dall, 1881
• Scaphander darius Marcus & Marcus, 1967
• Scaphander duseni
• Scaphander edwardsii
• Scaphander elegans
• Scaphander fortisi
• Scaphander fragilis (Habe, 1952)
• Scaphander gracilis Watson, 1886
• Scaphander grateloupi
• Scaphander ickei
• Scaphander illecebrosus Iredale, 1925
• Scaphander impunctatus
• Scaphander japonicus Adams, 1862
• Scaphander jugularis (Conrad, 1855)
• Scaphander langdoni
• Scaphander lignarius (Linnaeus, 1767)
• Scaphander lignarius lignarius (Linnaeus, 1758) - wood-grained canoe bubble
• Scaphander mundus Watson, 1883 ^[2]
• Scaphander nobilis Verrill, 1884
• Scaphander otagoensis Dell, 1956
• Scaphander parisiensis
• Scaphander pilsbryi McGinty, 1955
• Scaphander primus
• Scaphander punctostriatus (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) - giant canoe-bubble
• Scaphander punnetostriatus
• Scaphander sibogae Schepman, 1913
• Scaphander subglobosus Schepman, 1913
• Scaphander watsoni Dall, 1881
• Scaphander watsoni rehderi
• Scaphander willetti Dall, 1919

References

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• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1

External links

• Miocene Gastropods and Biostratigraphy of the Kern River Area, California; United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 642 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.