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Typhis

Gastropoda - Neogastropoda - Muricidae

Taxonomy

Typhis was named by Montfort (1810) [Sepkoski's age data: T Than R Sepkoski's reference number: 914]. It is extant. Its type is Purpura tubifer.

It was reranked as Murex (Typhis) by Dieni and Omenetto (1960).

It was assigned to Gastropoda by Mansfield (1925); to Murex by Dieni and Omenetto (1960); to Muricinae by MacNeil (1960); to Typhinae by Woodring (1959), Gertman (1969), Vokes (1983), Vokes (1989), Ward (1992); to Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002); and to Muricidae by d'Orbigny (1850), Martin (1904), Gardner (1947), Harris and Palmer (1947), Addicott (1970), Ladd (1982), Todd (2001), Wienrich (2001), Landau et al. (2007).

Species

T. (Ciphonochelus), T. (Haustellotyphis), T. (Rugotyphis), T. (Typhis) (syn. T. (Monstrotyphis)), T. (Typhisopsis), T. acanthopterus, T. acuticosta, T. antiquus, T. maccoyi, T. tripterus

Species lacking formal opinion data

T. alatus, T. hebetatus, T. japonicus

Synonyms

Hirotyphis was named by Jousseaume (1880) [Sepkoski's age data: T Ol-u T Mi-u-l Sepkoski's reference number: 899,909]. It is extant.

It was synonymized subjectively with Typhis by Gertman (1969); it was corrected as Hirtotyphis by Schnetler et al. (2024).

It was assigned to Neogastropoda by Sepkoski (2002); and to Typhinae by Schnetler et al. (2024).

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1810	Typhis Montfort
1850	Tiphis d'Orbigny
1880	Hirotyphis Jousseaume p. 336
1904	Typhis Martin p. 203
1925	Typhis Mansfield p. 48
1947	Typhis Gardner p. 526
1947	Typhis Harris and Palmer p. 344
1959	Typhis Woodring p. 220
1960	Murex (Typhis) Dieni and Omenetto p. 613
1960	Typhis MacNeil p. 63
1969	Typhis Gertman p. 147
1970	Typhis Addicott p. 83
1982	Typhis Ladd p. 42
1983	Typhis Vokes p. 124
1989	Typhis Vokes p. 117
1992	Typhis Ward p. 130
2001	Typhis Todd
2001	Typhis Wienrich p. 472
2002	Hirotyphis Sepkoski
2002	Typhis Sepkoski
2007	Typhis Landau et al. p. 56
2024	Hirtotyphis Schnetler et al. p. 20

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca
class	Gastropoda

Rank	Name	Author
subclass	Caenogastropoda	(Cox 1959)
—	Sorbeoconcha	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
—	Hypsogastropoda	(Ponder and Lindberg 1997)
superorder	Latrogastropoda	Riedel 2000
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Muricoidea	de Costa 1776
family	Muricidae	Rafinesque 1815
genus	Typhis	Montfort 1810

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

G. Typhis Montfort 1810

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Subg. Typhis (Ciphonochelus) Jousseaume 1882

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†Typhis (Cyphonochilus) fistulosus Hörnes 1856

Subg. Typhis (Haustellotyphis) Jousseaume 1880

Subg. Typhis (Rugotyphis) Vella 1961

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Typhis (Rugotyphis) cleryi Petit de la Saussaye 1840

†Typhis (Rugotyphis) dentatus Johnson 1899

Typhis (Rugotyphis) floridanus Dall 1889

Invalid names: Typhis (Typhinellus) carolinensis Olsson and Petit 1964 [synonym]