Neothais

Neothais
Shell of Neothais marginatra (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Neothais Iredale, 1912
Type species
Purpura smithi Brazier, 1889
Species
See text

Neothais is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Rapaninae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Species within the genus Neothais include:

• Neothais harpa (Conrad, 1837)^[2]
• † Neothais lassa Marwick, 1948
• Neothais marginatra (Blainville, 1832)
• Neothais nesiotes (Dall, 1908)^[3]
• Neothais smithi (Brazier, 1889)^[4]

Species brought into synonymy

• Neothais clathrata (A. Adams, 1854): synonym of Coralliophila clathrata (A. Adams, 1854)
• Neothais scalaris (Menke, 1829): synonym of Dicathais orbita (Gmelin, 1791)

• Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102.

• Iredale, T. (1912). New generic names and new species of marine Mollusca. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 10(3): 217-228, pl. 9
• Tan K. S. (2003) Phylogenetic analysis and taxonomy of some southern Australian and New Zealand Muricidae (Mollusca: Neogastropoda). Journal of Natural History 37(8): 911-1028

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