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Stigmaulax

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Description

Stigmaulax is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Naticidae, the moon snails.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2300344	https://www.gbif.org/species/2300344
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	10506	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=10506

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Naticidae : Stigmaulax

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Naticidae : Stigmaulax

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
superorder	Hypsogastropoda
infraorder	Littorinimorpha	Golikov and Starobogtov 1975
superfamily	Naticoidea	(Forbes 1838)
family	Naticidae	Guilding 1834
subfamily	Naticinae	Guilding 1834
genus	Stigmaulax	Mörch 1852

Scientific Name

Stigmaulax Mörch, 1852

Name Published In

Cat. Conch. Yoldi, 1

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Stigmaulax	subgenus	belongs to Natica	stated without evidence	Cossmann, 1924
Stigmaulax	genus	belongs to Naticinae	stated without evidence	Woodring, 1928
Stigmaulax	subgenus	belongs to Natica	stated with evidence	Gardner, 1947
Stigmaulax	genus	belongs to Naticidae	stated with evidence	Todd, 2001
Stigmaulax	genus	belongs to Neotaenioglossa	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002
Stigmaulax	genus	belongs to Naticinae	stated with evidence	Landau and Marques da Silva, 2010

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (29%)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Naticidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Naticidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Naticidae)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

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

Common Name(s)

チヂミタマガイ

Wikipedia

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

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Natica guppiana ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		77	16.0 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Natica verrugosum species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stigmaulax beaumonti ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene
Stigmaulax broderipiana species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Stigmaulax cancellatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stigmaulax cayennensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stigmaulax elenae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stigmaulax kugleriana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stigmaulax kushime species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stigmaulax landesiana species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		3	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Stigmaulax sulcata species	listed (PBDB)		16	23.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Stigmaulax sulcatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Stigmaulax vererugosum ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		18	20.4 Ma Miocene	3.60 Ma Pliocene

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Aloconatica Shikama, 1971	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Littorinimorpha : Naticidae : *Aloconatica*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1852	Stigmaulax Morch pp. p. 133
1924	Natica (Stigmaulax) Cossmann p. 115
1928	Stigmaulax Woodring p. 382
1947	Natica (Stigmaulax) Gardner p. 546
2001	Stigmaulax Todd
2002	Stigmaulax Sepkoski, Jr.
2010	Stigmaulax Landau and Marques da Silva p. 46

References

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

Woodring W. P. (1928) Miocene Molluscs from Bowden, Jamaica. Part 2: Gastropods and discussion of results, Contributions to the Geology and Palaeontology of the West Indies

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

Todd J. A. (2001) Systematic list of gastropods in the Panama Paleontology Project collections

Landau B., Marques da Silva C. (2010) Early Pliocene gastropods of Cubagua, Venezuela: Taxonomy, palaeobiogeography and ecostratigraphy, Palaeontos 19, 1-221

Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls. - via World Register of Marine Species

Turgeon, D. D., J. F. Quinn, Jr., A. E. Bogan, E. V. Coan, F. G. Hochberg, W. G. Lyons, et al., 1998: Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: Mollusks, 2nd ed.. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26. 526. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

CoL2006 - 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 unverified - 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

Vaught, K. C. / Abbott, Robert T. and Kenneth J. Boss, 1989: null. A classification of the living Mollusca. xii+195. - via Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS)

Cat. Conch. Yoldi, 1 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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