Vitularia
Genus of gastropods
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Vitularia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.[1]
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| Vitularia | |
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| Vitularia salebrosa | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Superfamily: | Muricoidea |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Muricopsinae |
| Genus: | Vitularia Swainson, 1840 |
| Type species | |
| Murex miliaris Gmelin, 1791 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Distribution
These marine species occur in the Indo-west Pacific and eastern Pacific; also off Australia (Queensland, Western Australia)
Species
Species within the genus Vitularia include:
- Vitularia crenifer (Montrouzier, 1861)[2]
- † Vitularia dominicana E. H. Vokes, 1989
- † Vitularia linguabovis (Basterot, 1825)
- Vitularia miliaris (Gmelin, 1791)[3]
- Vitularia minima Bozzetti, 2006[4]
- Vitularia salebrosa (King & Broderip, 1832)[5]
- Vitularia sandwicensis (Pease, 1861)[6]
- Vitularia triangularis Bozzetti, 2009[7]
- Synonyms
- Vitularia asiatica Kira, 1962: synonym of Vitularia miliaris (Gmelin, 1791)
- Vitularia aspera Baird, 1863: synonym of Paciocinebrina lurida (Middendorff, 1848)
- Vitularia candida H. Adams & A. Adams, 1864: synonym of Nucella wahlbergi (Krauss, 1848)
- † Vitularia crassicostata (Deshayes, 1835): synonym of † Lyropurpura crassicostata (Deshayes, 1835) (superseded combination)
- † Vitularia curtansata Tate, 1888 †: synonym of † Urosalpinx curtansata (Tate, 1888)
- Vitularia extensa M. Smith, 1947: synonym of Vitularia salebrosa (P. P. King, 1832)
- Vitularia tuberculata Swainson, 1840: synonym of Vitularia miliaris (Gmelin, 1791)
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