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Xymene

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Description

Xymene is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails, found in New Zealand.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2304161	https://www.gbif.org/species/2304161
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11872	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11872

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Xymene

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	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Muricidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Trophoninae	Cossmann 1903
genus	Xymene	Iredale 1915

Scientific Name

Xymene Iredale, 1915

Name Published In

Trans. N.Z. Inst., 47: 471

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Xymene	genus	belongs to Trophoninae	stated without evidence	Beu et al., 1990
Xymene	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (50%)

First Recorded Appearance

56.0 - 41.3 Ma
Eocene

Motility

actively mobile (based on Muricidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Muricidae)

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/Xymene

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)
Xymene coctor species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymene erectus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymene expansus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymene huttonii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymene lepida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymene moniliferus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymene plebeius species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymene pumilus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymene teres species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymene waitemataensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymene warreni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Xymenella inambitiosa ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Zymene Marshall & Murdoch, 1924	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : *Zymene*
Kalydon Hutton, 1883	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : *Kalydon*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1927	Xymenella Finlay
1990	Xymene Beu et al. pp. 414, 415
2002	Xymene Sepkoski, Jr.
2002	Xymenella Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Beu A. G., Maxwell P.A., et al (1990) Cenozoic Mollusca of New Zealand, New Zealand Geological Survey Paleontological Bulletin 58

Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. - via World Register of Marine Species

International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 911 Six misidentified type-species in the superfamily Muricacea (Gastropoda).Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature 27, 20-26 (1970) - via Official Lists and Indexes of Names in Zoology

Barco, A.; Marshall, B.; Houart, R.; Oliverio, M. (2015). Molecular phylogenetics of Haustrinae and Pagodulinae (Neogastropoda: Muricidae) with a focus on New Zealand species. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 81(4): 476-488. - via World Register of Marine Species

Barco A., Schiaparelli S., Houart R., Oliverio M. (2012). Cenozoic evolution of Muricidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda) in the Southern Ocean, with the description of a new subfamily. Zoologica Scripta, vol. 41, p. 596-616, ISSN: 0300-3256 - via World Register of Marine Species

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

Trans. N. Zealand Inst., 47 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - 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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