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Rapana

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Description

Rapana is a genus of large predatory sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock snails.

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

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	3243423	https://www.gbif.org/species/3243423
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11623	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11623

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : Rapana

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	Rapaninae	Gray 1853
genus	Rapana	Schumacher 1817

Scientific Name

Rapana Schumacher, 1817

Name Published In

Schumacher, C. F. 1817. Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenhague.: 287 pp.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Rapana	genus	belongs to Muricidae	stated without evidence	Clark and Arnold, 1923
Rapana	genus	belongs to Rapaninae	stated with evidence	MacNeil, 1960
Rapana	genus	belongs to Thaidinae	implied	Wilson, 1994
Rapana	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

2 (25%)

First Recorded Appearance

61.6 - 59.2 Ma
Paleocene

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/Rapana

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Rapana bezoar species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rapana bulbosa species	listed (PBDB)		3	11.6 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Rapana fortunei species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rapana imperialis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		2	23.0 Ma Miocene	23.0 Ma Miocene
Rapana mekranica ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		1	5.33 Ma Miocene	5.33 Ma Miocene
Rapana pellucida species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rapana perrini ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Rapana rapiformis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rapana serrai ✝ species	listed (PBDB)
Rapana stantoni species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Rapana vaquerosensis ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		30	28.1 Ma Oligocene	16.0 Ma Miocene
Rapana vaughani ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	28.4 Ma Oligocene	28.1 Ma Oligocene
Rapana venosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Rapanus Blainville, 1826	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Muricidae : *Rapanus*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1817	Rapana Schumacher
1923	Rapana Clark and Arnold p. 161
1960	Rapana MacNeil p. 62
1994	Rapana Wilson p. 46
2002	Rapana Sepkoski, Jr.

References

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

Clark B. L., Arnold R. (1923) Fauna of the Sooke Formation Vancouver Island, University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences 14 5, 123-234

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

Wilson B. (1994) , Australian Marine Shells 2

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. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013] - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Ess. Vers test., 65 - 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

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

Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

SN2000/Boss, 1982 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (2016) Accessed through World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

GBIF (2014) Global Biodiversity Information Facility: http://data.gbif.org/ - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

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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