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Phos Montfort 1810

  • 1. Research Associate Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity (ISYEB), Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), CNRS, SU, EPHE, UA, CP 51, Rue Cuvier 57, 75005 Paris, France. & Leuvensestraat 25, 3200 Aarschot, Belgium.
  • 2. Research Associate Institute of Systematics, Evolution, Biodiversity (ISYEB), Muséum national d'histoire naturelle (MNHN), CNRS, SU, EPHE, UA, CP 51, Rue Cuvier 57, 75005 Paris, France.
  • 3. Avenida Friedrich Engels 373 - 1 °, 1101 Maputo, Mozambique.

Description

Genus Phos Montfort, 1810

Phos Montfort, 1810: 484–486.

Type species

Murex senticosus Linnaeus, 1758, by original designation (Tropical Indo-West Pacific).

Remarks

The Photinae were recently the subject of a profound taxonomic revision (Galindo et al. 2016). Molecular data prove that all species belonging to Phos Montfort, 1810 represent a monophyletic group occuring exclusively in the Indo-West Pacific, distinct from the Carribean Antillophos Woodring, 1928 (see Galindo et al. 2016: 343, fig. 1, 345, fig. 2, 348, fig. 3). It is typical that genera within Nassariidae are geographically restricted clades, while the biogeographic range of genera is usually broader in Buccinidae. The generic separation within Photinae based on sculpture and protoconch morphology, as discussed by Fraussen & Poppe (2005: 76–77, 81–82), no longer holds. As a result, Phos senticosus, with a smooth protoconch, is congeneric with other Indo-West Pacific species that have a characteristically sculptured protoconch and that were formerly placed in Antillophos. For a discussion about the taxonomic positions of Phos and Antillophos within Nassariidae, we refer to Galindo et al. (2016).

Notes

Published as part of Fraussen, Koen, Galindo, Lee Ann & Rosado, José, 2020, Deep-water Photinae (Gastropoda: Nassariidae) from eastern Africa, with descriptions of five new species, pp. 144-169 in European Journal of Taxonomy 720 on page 146, DOI: 10.5852/ejt.2020.720.1123, http://zenodo.org/record/4106593

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Scientific name authorship
Montfort
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Neogastropoda
Family
Buccinidae
Genus
Phos
Taxon rank
genus
Taxonomic concept label
Phos Montfort, 1810 sec. Fraussen, Galindo & Rosado, 2020

References

  • Montfort D. de. 1810. Conchyliologie systematique, et Classification methodique des Coquilles; offrant leurs Figures, leur Arrangement generique, leurs Descriptions caracteristiques, leurs Noms; ainsi que leur Synonymie en plusieurs Langues. Coquilles univalves, non cloisonnees. Vol. 2. F. Schoell, Paris. Available from https: // www. biodiversitylibrary. org / page / 11065017 [accessed 15 Sep. 2020].
  • Galindo L. A., Puillandre N., Utge J., Lozouet P. & Bouchet P. 2016. The phylogeny and systematics of the Nassariidae revisited (Gastropoda, Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 99: 337 - 353. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. ympev. 2016.03.019
  • Fraussen K. & Poppe G. T. 2005. Revision of Phos and Antillophos (Buccinidae) from the central Philippines. Visaya 1 (5): 76 - 115.