Taranis Jeffreys 1870 ...

• Main Authors: Morassi, Mauro, Bonfitto, Antonio
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: Zenodo 2013
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Neogastropoda; Raphitomidae; Taranis; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6150278; https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.6150278

Genus Taranis Jeffreys, 1870 (= Fenestrosyrinx Finlay, 1926) Type species: Trophon moerchii Malm, 1861 Remarks: Jeffreys (1870) proposed the genus Taranis for Trophon moerchii Malm, 1861 a recent species described from Sweden. According to Appeltans et al., 2012 (World Register of Marine Species, accessed at http:// www.marinespecies.org) the genus is represented in the recent fauna by 21 species and 2 subspecies with a worldwide distribution. Bouchet & Warén (1980) provided photographs of the type species and other northeast Atlantic Taranis species while the Indo-Pacific members of the genus were treated by Powell (1967). Kilburn (1991) reported the genus Taranis from southern Africa and described new species. Additional “typical” members of the genus Taranis recognized in literature are Taranis aliena (Marwick, 1965) from the Pliocene of New Zealand (Maxwell, 1988; Beu & Maxwell, 1990), T. circumflexa (Hornung, 1920) from the Pliocene-Early Pleistocene of Italy and Spain (Bernasconi & Robba, ... : Published as part of Morassi, Mauro & Bonfitto, Antonio, 2013, Three new bathyal raphitomine gastropods (Mollusca: Conoidea) from the Indo-Pacific region, pp. 579-588 in Zootaxa 3620 (4) on pages 580-583, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3620.4.7, http://zenodo.org/record/223876 ...