Demoulia

Demoulia
Two shells of Demoulia abbreviata (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Nassariidae
Subfamily:	Nassariinae
Genus:	Demoulia Gray, 1838
Type species
Buccinum retusum Lamarck, 1822
Synonyms[1]
Demoulea Gray, 1847 Demoulinsia (incorrect subsequent spelling) Desmoulea Gray, 1847 Desmoulinsia Woodward, 1851 Moulinsia Tournouer, 1874 (not available: not used as a valid name) Nassa (Demoulea) [sic] (incorrect subsequent spelling of Demoulia Gray, 1838) Nassa (Demoulia) Gray, 1838 Nassa (Desmoulea) [sic] (incorrect subsequent spelling of Demoulia Gray, 1838) Streptorhega Bronn, 1856

Demoulia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.^[1]

Species[]

Species within the genus Demoulia include:

• Demoulia abbreviata (Gmelin, 1791)
• † (Brocchi, 1814)
• Demoulia obtusata (Link, 1807)^[2]
• † (Brocchi, 1814)
• Demoulia ventricosa (Lamarck, 1816)

Species brought into synonymy

• Demoulia kurodai Tomlin, 1932 : synonym of (Gould, 1860)
• Demoulia pulchra Gray, 1838 : synonym of Demoulia obtusata (Link, 1807)
• Demoulia retusa (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Demoulia ventricosa (Lamarck, 1816)

References[]

• Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
• 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

External links[]

• Gray, J.E. (1838). On some new species of quadrupeds and shells. Annals of Natural History. ser. 1, 1: 27-30
• Galindo, L. A.; Puillandre, N.; Utge, J.; Lozouet, P.; Bouchet, P. (2016). The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 337-353

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