Doxander
Genus of gastropods
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Doxander is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.[1]
| Doxander | |
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| Five views of a shell of Doxander vittatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Stromboidea |
| Family: | Strombidae |
| Genus: | Doxander Wenz, 1940 |
| Type species | |
| Strombus vittatus Linnaeus, 1758 | |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Strombus (Doxander) Wenz, 1940 | |
The name Doxander was originally given by Iredale to this genus in 1931.[2] But since he did not provide a description, the name Doxander, Iredale, 1931 is no longer available under Art. 13.1 of the ICZN Code.
Species
Species within the genus Doxander include:
- Doxander campbelli (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)
- Doxander entropi (Man in 't Veld & Visser, 1993)
- Doxander japonicus (Reeve, 1851)
- Doxander operosus (Röding, 1798)
- Doxander queenslandicus S. J. Maxwell, 2022
- Doxander vittatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species brought into synonymy
- Doxander apicatus (Man in't Veld, L.A. & G.J. Visser, 1993): synonym of Doxander operosus (Röding, 1798)
