Taranis (gastropod)

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Taranis
Drawing of a shell of Taranis gratiosa
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Superfamily: Conoidea
Family: Raphitomidae
Genus: Taranis
Jeffreys, 1870
Type species
Trophon moerchii
Malm, 1861
Species

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Synonyms[1]
  • Allo Jousseaume, 1934
  • Feliciella Lamy, 1934
  • Fenestrosyrinx Finlay, 1926
  • Mangelia (Taranis) Jeffreys, 1870
  • Pleurotoma (Taranis) Jeffreys, 1870

Taranis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Raphitomidae.[1]

This genus was formerly placed in subfamily Borsoniinae, family Turridae in Vaught (1989).

The name Taranis is the Latinised name of the Gallic thunder god Taran. It is therefore a masculine name.

The species in this genus are characterized by the absence of a radula together with the loss or reduction of a number of other features of foregut anatomy (as described by Kantor & Sysoev (1989) ).[2][3]

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