Xymene
Genus of gastropods
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Xymene is a genus of predatory sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Muricidae, the rock snails, found in New Zealand.[1]
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| Xymene | |
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| Xymene ambiguus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Neogastropoda |
| Family: | Muricidae |
| Subfamily: | Pagodulinae |
| Genus: | Xymene Iredale, 1915 |
| Type species | |
| Fusus plebeius Hutton, 1873 | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Species
Species and subspecies within the genus Xymene include:
- Xymene convexus (Suter, 1909)
- Xymene erectus (Suter, 1909)
- Xymene huttoni (Murdoch, 1900)
- Xymene plebeius (Hutton, 1873)
- Xymene pumilus (Suter, 1909)
- Xymene teres (Finlay, 1930)
- Xymene warreni Ponder, 1972
- Species brought into synonymy
- Xymene ambiguus (Philippi, 1844): synonym of Zeatrophon ambiguus (Philippi, 1844)
- Xymene aucklandicus (E. A. Smith, 1902): synonym of Axymene aucklandicus (E. A. Smith, 1902)
- Xymene gouldi (Cossmann, 1903): synonym of Fuegotrophon pallidus (Broderip, 1833)
- Xymene inferus (Hutton, 1878): synonym of Xymene plebeius (Hutton, 1873)
- Xymene mortenseni (Odhner, 1924): synonym of Zeatrophon mortenseni (Odhner, 1924)
- Xymene oliveri Marwick, 1924: synonym of Xymene pusillus (Suter, 1907)
- Xymene pulcherrimus (Finlay, 1930): synonym of Zeatrophon pulcherrimus Finlay, 1930
- Xymene pusillus (Suter, 1907): synonym of Xymenella pusilla (Suter, 1907)
- Xymene quirindus Iredale, 1915: synonym of Xymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)
- Xymene robustus Finlay, 1924: synonym of Xymene pumilus (Suter, 1909)
- Xymene traversi (Hutton, 1873): synonym of Axymene traversi (Hutton, 1873)