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Acanthina Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 
AphiaID: 377980

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Ocenebrinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Parent Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903
Synonymised
taxa		  Monoceros Lamarck, 1809 (Invalid: junior homonym of Monoceros Lacépède, 1798 [Pisces] and others)
 Rudolpha Schumacher, 1817 (synonym)
 Unicornus Montfort, 1810 (synonym)
Source  basis of record: DeVries T.J. (2003) Acanthina Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 (Gastropoda: Muricidae), an ocenebrine genus endemic to South America. The Veliger 46(4): 332-350. [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774)
Species Acanthina unicornis (Bruguière, 1789)

Species Acanthina angelica Oldroyd, 1918 accepted as Mexacanthina angelica (Oldroyd, 1918)
Species Acanthina costata Fischer, 1807 accepted as Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774)
Species Acanthina crassilabra (Lamarck, 1816) accepted as Acanthina unicornis (Bruguière, 1789)
Species Acanthina imbricata Fischer, 1807 accepted as Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774)
Species Acanthina laevigata Fischer, 1807 accepted as Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774)
Species Acanthina lugubris (Sowerby I, 1821) accepted as Mexacanthina lugubris (Sowerby, 1821)
Species Acanthina paucilirata (Stearns, 1871) accepted as Acanthinucella paucilirata (Stearns, 1871)
Species Acanthina punctulata (Sowerby I, 1835) accepted as Acanthinucella punctulata (Sowerby, 1835)
Species Acanthina spirata (Blainville, 1832) accepted as Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832)
Species Acanthina tuberculata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) accepted as Neorapana tuberculata (Sowerby I, 1835)
Species Acanthina tyrianthina Berry, 1957 accepted as Mexacanthina lugubris (Sowerby, 1821)
Environment marine
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:377980
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-12-15 23:29:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2009-05-22 23:52:52Z  changed  Houart, Roland
  
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  Citation: Houart, R. (2013). Acanthina Fischer von Waldheim, 1807. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=377980 on 2013-05-25
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