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Polinices (moon snail)

Gastropoda - Naticidae

Taxonomy
Polinices was named by Monfort (1810) [Sepkoski's age data: K Camp-l R Sepkoski's reference number: 123]. It is extant. Its type is Polinices albus. It was considered paraphyletic by Huelsken et al. (2012).

It was reranked as Natica (Polynices) by Wilckens (1912); it was reranked as Natica (Polinices) by Friedberg (1923), Vredenburg (1928); it was corrected as Polynices by Nagao (1928).

It was assigned to Natica by Wilckens (1912), Friedberg (1923), Vredenburg (1928); to Naticidae by Arnold (1903), Martin (1904), Clark and Arnold (1923), Nagao (1928), Nagao (1928), Olsson (1931), Turner (1938), Durham (1944), Gardner (1947), Rivera (1957), Kokay (1966), Marasti (1973), Ladd (1977), Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska (1984), Ward and Blackwelder (1987), Frassinetti and Covacevich (1995), Todd (2001), Wienrich (2001); to Neotaenioglossa by Sepkoski (2002); to Naticinae by Woodring (1928), Harris and Palmer (1947), Landau and Marques da Silva (2010); and to Polinicinae by MacNeil (1960), Addicott (1970), Moore (1976), Marincovich (1977), Hickman (1980), Squires (1984), Squires (1987), Majima (1989), Beu et al. (1990), Wilson (1993), Harzhauser (2002), Pastorino (2005), Huelsken et al. (2012).

Species
Natica (Polinices) togoensis, Naticella arctecostata, Naticella bronnii, Naticella compressa, Naticella praesublineata, Naticella tuba, P. (Conuber), P. (Hypterita), P. (Polinella), P. (Polinices), P. albumen, P. albus (type species), P. blaesus, P. candidissimus (syn. P. jukesii), P. cerovaensis, P. coensis, P. conicus, P. dubius, P. eminulus (syn. Natica (Lunatia) parva), P. fallai, P. flemingianus, P. gainesanus, P. hepaticus (syn. Natica brunnea, P. brunnea, P. subclausa), P. hornii, P. incei, P. intemeratus (syn. Natica rapulum, Natica alabaster), P. intermeratus, P. kummeli, P. lacteus, P. lavelana, P. lincolnensis, P. lobatus, P. mammata, P. mammilla, P. melanostomus, P. mercedensis, P. otis, P. panamaensis, P. peselephanti (syn. P. powisianus), P. porcana, P. powisiana, P. prolactea, P. pseudoredempta, P. recluziana, P. redemptus, P. repenningi, P. sebae, P. shumardianus (syn. Gyrodes californica), P. simiae, P. sookensis, P. sordidus, P. stanislasmeunieri (syn. P. (Polinices) schombergki, Natica coronis, P. caparona, P. springvalensis), P. subtenuis, P. susanaensis, P. uber (syn. Natica virginea, Natica ovum), P. victorianus, P. waipaensis, P. washingtonensis, P. weisbordi, Polynices consimilis, Polynices hornii, Polynices jorgensis, Polynices ortmanni, Polynices santacrucensis
Species lacking formal opinion data
P. alamedensis, P. aratus, P. brunneus, P. columnaris, P. concinna, P. cumingianus, P. eucallosus, P. finlayi, P. finlayi, P. horni, P. huttoni, P. julianna, P. lewisi, P. marambiensis, P. medinae, P. modestus, P. nagahamai, P. newtoni, P. obstructus, P. onustus, P. onustus, P. onustus, P. orangensis, P. panamensis, P. panamensis, P. parki, P. prolacteus, P. propeovatus, P. robustus, P. saulae, P. staringi, P. subtenius, P. subvarians