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Siratus Jousseaume, 1880 
AphiaID: 405258

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Muricinae (Subfamily)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Murex sirat d'Orbigny, 1841 (type by original designation)
Parent Muricinae Rafinesque, 1815
Synonymised
taxa		  Chicoreus (Siratus) Jousseaume, 1880
 Murex (Siratus)
Source  taxonomy source: Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648 pp. [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Siratus aguayoi (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
Species Siratus alabaster (Reeve, 1845)
Species Siratus articulatus (Reeve, 1845)
Species Siratus beauii (Fischer & Bernardi, 1857)
Species Siratus bessei (Houart, 2000)
Species Siratus cailleti (Petit de la Saussaye, 1856)
Species Siratus carolynae (Vokes, 1990)
Species Siratus caudacurtus (Houart, 1999)
Species Siratus ciboney (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
Species Siratus colellai (Houart, 1999)
Species Siratus coltrorum (Vokes, 1990)
Species Siratus consuela (A. H. Verrill, 1950)
Species Siratus evelynae Houart, 2012
Species Siratus formosus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841)
Species Siratus guionneti (Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2001)
Species Siratus gundlachi (Dunker, 1883)
Species Siratus hennequini (Houart, 2000)
Species Siratus kugleri (Clench & Pérez Farfante, 1945)
Species Siratus lamyi Merle & Garrigues, 2008
Species Siratus michelae Houart & Colomb, 2012
Species Siratus motacilla (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Siratus perelegans (Vokes, 1965)
Species Siratus pliciferoides (Kuroda, 1942)
Species Siratus pointieri Merle & Garrigues, 2011
Species Siratus senegalensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Siratus springeri (Bullis, 1964)
Species Siratus tenuivaricosus (Dautzenberg, 1927)
Species Siratus thompsoni (Bullis, 1964)
Species Siratus vokesorum (Garcia, 1999)

Species Siratus hirasei Shikama, 1973 accepted as Siratus pliciferoides (Kuroda, 1942)
Species Siratus vicdani Kosuge, 1980 accepted as Siratus pliciferoides (Kuroda, 1942)
Environment marine
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
Note  Type species: as "Purpura sirat Adanson" [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:405258
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-06-23 13:02:48Z  created  Houart, Roland
2009-06-23 17:31:30Z  changed  Houart, Roland
2012-03-19 19:33:35Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Houart, R. (2013). Siratus. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=405258 on 2013-05-25
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