Scaphander
Encyclopedia
Scaphander is a genus
of sea snail
s, marine
gastropod molluscs in the family
Scaphandridae
, the canoe bubbles.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of sea snail
Snail
Snail is a common name applied to most of the members of the molluscan class Gastropoda that have coiled shells in the adult stage. When the word is used in its most general sense, it includes sea snails, land snails and freshwater snails. The word snail without any qualifier is however more often...
s, marine
Marine (ocean)
Marine is an umbrella term. As an adjective it is usually applicable to things relating to the sea or ocean, such as marine biology, marine ecology and marine geology...
gastropod molluscs in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Scaphandridae
Scaphandridae
Scaphandridae is a family of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the superfamily ???.- Taxonomy :Scaphandridae was considered as a synonym of Cylichnidae in the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005).However, Malaquias et al...
, the canoe bubbles.
Species
Species within the genus Scaphander include:- Scaphander alatus: synonym of Scaphander mundus Watson, 1883
- Scaphander andamanicus
- Scaphander bathymophila Dall, 1881
- Scaphander darius Marcus & Marcus, 1967
- Scaphander duseni
- Scaphander edwardsii
- Scaphander elegans
- Scaphander fortisi
- Scaphander fragilis (Habe, 1952)
- Scaphander gracilis Watson, 1886
- Scaphander grateloupi
- Scaphander ickei
- Scaphander illecebrosus Iredale, 1925
- Scaphander impunctatus
- Scaphander japonicus A. Adams, 1862
- Scaphander jugularis
- Scaphander langdoni
- Scaphander lignariusScaphander lignariusScaphander lignarius, common name the Woody Canoe-bubble, is a species of sea snail, a bubble snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Scaphandridae.-Distribution:...
(Linnaeus, 1767) - Scaphander lignarius lignarius (Linnaeus, 1758) - wood-grained canoe bubble
- Scaphander mundus Watson, 1883
- Scaphander nobilis Verrill, 1884
- Scaphander otagoensisScaphander otagoensisScaphander otagoensis is a species of sea snail, a marine opisthobranch gastropod mollusk in the family Scaphandridae, the canoe bubbles.-References:...
DellRichard DellDr Richard Kenneth Dell was a New Zealand malacologist. He was born in Auckland. As a young boy, he took an interest in shells, collecting them from the shores of Waitemata Harbour. He even managed to start a "museum" in his backyard...
, 1956 - Scaphander parisiensis
- Scaphander pilsbryi McGinty, 1955
- Scaphander primus
- Scaphander punctostriatus (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) - giant canoe-bubble
- Scaphander punnetostriatus
- Scaphander sibogae Schepman, 1913
- Scaphander subglobosus Schepman, 1913
- Scaphander watsoni Dall, 1881
- Scaphander watsoni rehderi
- Scaphander willetti Dall, 1919