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Description

Phos is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phos, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2304641	https://www.gbif.org/species/2304641
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11519	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11519

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Nassariidae : Phos

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : Phos

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Buccinidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Phos	Montfort 1810

Scientific Name

Phos Montfort, 1810

Name Published In

Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)].

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Phos	subgenus	belongs to Buccinum	stated with evidence	Martin, 1878
Phos	genus	belongs to Gastropoda	stated without evidence	Mansfield, 1925
Phos	genus	belongs to Photinae	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1947
Phos	genus	belongs to Nassariidae	stated with evidence	Marks, 1951
Phos	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated with evidence	MacNeil, 1960
Phos	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated without evidence	Marasti, 1973
Phos	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated with evidence	Ladd, 1982
Phos	genus	belongs to Buccininae	implied	Wilson, 1994
Phos	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated without evidence	Wienrich, 2001
Phos	genus	belongs to Buccinidae	stated with evidence	Harzhauser, 2002
Phos	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (8.3%)

First Recorded Appearance

59.2 - 56.0 Ma
Paleocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Buccinidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Buccinidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phos

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Phos (Buccitriton) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		97	59.2 Ma Paleocene	37.2 Ma Eocene
Phos (Coraeophos) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)		1	11.6 Ma Miocene	11.6 Ma Miocene
Phos (Phos) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		15	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Phos (Strongylocera) ✝ subgenus	listed (PBDB)
Buccinum (Phos) cuspidatum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Cominella lyraecostata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos acuminatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Phos adamsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos alabastrum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos albirupina species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos alternatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos amoenus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos bakeri species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos blainvillei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos blountanus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos bruneiensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos bullbrooki ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Phos caseyi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos clarcki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos clarki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos cocosensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos crassus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos cuspidatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos cyanostoma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos deforgesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos dijki species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos dingsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos dumalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos falsus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos gabbii ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	33.9 Ma Oligocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Phos galvestonensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos gladysiae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos gregsoni ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	11.6 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Phos guppyi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Phos haughti ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		5	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Phos hilli species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos hirasei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos hoernesi ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Phos hopkinsi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos johnsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos laevigatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos latirugatus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Phos lyraecostatus ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Phos macilentus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos macrostoma species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos muriculatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos naucratoris species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos nodicostatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos notatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos parrishi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos plicatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos roseatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos roycei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos scalarioides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos sculptilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos senticosus species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Phos sloani ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	3.60 Ma Pliocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Phos tardicrescens ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Phos temperatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos textilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos textus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos thayerae ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Phos trinitatensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	16.0 Ma Miocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Phos tuberculatus ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Phos turritus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos vandenberghi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos vaughani ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Phos vicksburgensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos virgatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos virginiae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos watsoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Phos woodwardianus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Strongylocera Mörch, 1852	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Nassariidae : *Strongylocera*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1810	Phos Monfort
1878	Buccinum (Phos) Martin p. 37
1925	Phos Mansfield p. 454
1947	Phos Gardner p. 459
1951	Phos Marks p. 383
1960	Phos MacNeil p. 74

Year	Name and Author
1973	Phos Marasti p. 92
1982	Phos Ladd p. 47
1994	Phos Wilson p. 65
2001	Phos Wienrich p. 483
2002	Phos Harzhauser p. 99
2002	Phos Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Mansfield W. C. (1925) Miocene gastropods and scaphopods from Trinidad, British West Indies, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 66 22, 9116-9125

Gardner J. R. (1947) The Molluscan Fauna of the Alum Bluff Group of Florida, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 142A-H, 1-709

Marks J. G. (1951) Miocene stratigraphy and paleontology of Southwestern Ecuador, Bulletins of American Paleontology 33 139, 1-448

MacNeil F. S. (1960) Tertiary and Quaternary Gastropoda of Okinawa: A comparison of the late Miocene, Pliocene, and Pleistocene Gastropoda of Okinawa with related faunas of East Asia together with a resume of the geological setting of the fossiliferous deposits, United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 339, 1-148

Marasti R. (1973) La fauna tortoniana del T. Stirone (limite Parmense-Piacentino), Bollettino della Societa Paleontologica Italiana 12 1, 76-120

Ladd H. S. (1982) Cenozoic fossil mollusks from Western Pacific Islands; Gastropods (Volutidae through Terebridae), United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 1171, 1-100

Wilson B. (1994) , Australian Marine Shells 2

Wienrich G. (2001) Die Fauna des marinen Miozäns von Kevelaer (Niederrhein), Gastropoda bis Cancellariidae 3, 385-639

Harzhauser M. (2002) Marine und brachyhaline Gastropoden aus dem Karpatium des Korneubuger Beckens und der Kreuzstettener Bucht (Österreich, Untermiozän), Beiträge zur Paläontologie 27, 61-159

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Conch. Syst., 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000: Brands, S. J. (compiler) 1989-2005. Systema Naturae 2000. Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006 version). Available online at http://sn2000.taxonomy.nl/. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Nov 2016). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Higo, Shun'ichi, Paul Callomon, and Yoshihiro Goto, 1999: null. Catalogue and Bibliography of the Marine Shell-bearing Mollusca of Japan: Gastropoda, Bivalvia, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda. 749. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

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. - via World Register of Marine Species

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