Siratus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Muricinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.
Species
Species within the genus Siratus include:
- Siratus aguayoi <small>(Clench & Perez Farfante, 1945)</small>
- Siratus alabaster <small>(Reeve, 1845)</small>
- Siratus articulatus <small>(Reeve, 1845)</small>
- Siratus beauii <small>(Fischer & Bernardi, 1857)</small>
- Siratus bessei <small>(Houart, 2000)</small>
- Siratus cailletti <small>(Petit, 1856)</small>
- Siratus carolynae <small>(Vokes, 1990)</small>
- Siratus caudacurtus <small>(Houart, 1999)</small>
- Siratus ciboney <small>(Clench & Perez Farfante, 1945)</small>
- Siratus colellai <small>(Houart, 1999)</small>
- Siratus coltrorum <small>(Vokes, 1990)</small>
- Siratus consuela <small>(A. H. Verrill, 1950)</small>
- Siratus cracens <small>Houart, 2014</small>
- Siratus evelynae <small>Houart, 2012</small>
- Siratus formosus <small>(Sowerby, 1841)</small>
- Siratus guionneti <small>(Merle, Garrigues & Pointier, 2001)</small>
- Siratus gundlachi <small>(Dunker, 1883)</small>
- â Siratus harzhauseri <small>Landau & Houart, 2014</small>
- Siratus hennequini <small>(Houart, 2000)</small>
- â Siratus hirmetzli <small>Z. Kovács, 2018</small>
- â Siratus komiticus <small>(Suter, 1917)</small>
- Siratus kugleri <small>(Clench & Perez Farfante, 1945)</small>
- Siratus lamyi <small>Merle & Garrigues, 2008</small>
- Siratus michelae <small>Houart & Colomb, 2012</small>
- Siratus motacilla <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Siratus perelegans <small>(Vokes, 1965)</small>
- Siratus pliciferoides <small>(Kuroda, 1942)</small>
- Siratus pointieri <small>Merle & Garrigues, 2011</small>
- Siratus senegalensis <small>(Gmelin, 1791)</small>
- Siratus springeri <small>(Bullis, 1964)</small>
- â Siratus syngenes <small>(Finlay, 1930)</small>
- Siratus tenuivaricosus <small>(Dautzenberg, 1927)</small>
- Siratus thompsoni <small>(Bullis, 1964)</small>
- Siratus vokesorum <small>(Garcia, 1999)</small>
Species brought into synonymy:
- Siratus gallinago <small>(G. B. Sowerby III, 1903)</small>: synonym of Vokesimurex gallinago <small>(G. B. Sowerby III, 1903)</small>
- Siratus hirasei <small>Shikama, 1973</small>: synonym of Siratus pliciferoides <small>(Kuroda, 1942)</small>
- Siratus vicdani <small>Kosuge, 1980</small> : synonym of Siratus pliciferoides <small>(Kuroda, 1942)</small>
References
- Merle D., Garrigues B. & Pointier J.-P. (2011) Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world. Part Muricinae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 648
- Houart R. (2012) Description of a new species in the Siratus pliciferoides group (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from the Philippines. Novapex 13(1): 25-28
- Houart, R. (2014). Living Muricidae of the world. Muricinae. Murex, Promurex, Haustellum, Bolinus, Vokesimurex and Siratus. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 197 pp.
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