Enigmaticolus

Enigmaticolus
Shell of Enigmaticolus monnieri (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Family:	Eosiphonidae
Genus:	Enigmaticolus Fraussen, 2008
Type species
Enigmaticolus monnieri Fraussen, 2008

Enigmaticolus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the family Eosiphonidae, the true whelks and their allies. ^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Enigmaticolus include:

• Enigmaticolus desbruyeresi (Okutani & Ohta, 1993) ^[2]
• Enigmaticolus marshalli Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2016
• Enigmaticolus nipponensis (Okutani & Fujiwara, 2000) ^[2]
• † Enigmaticolus semisulcatus (K. Martin, 1933)
• Enigmaticolus voluptarius Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2016

Synonyms

• Enigmaticolus auzendei(A. Warén & P. Bouchet, 2001): synonym of Thermosipho auzendei (A. Warén & P. Bouchet, 2001)
• Enigmaticolus inflatusS.-Q. Zhang, S.-P. Zhang & H. Chen, 2020: synonym of Enigmaticolus nipponensis(Okutani & Fujiwara, 2000)
• Enigmaticolus monnieri Fraussen, 2008: ^[3] synonym of Enigmaticolus nipponensis(Okutani & Fujiwara, 2000)

References

1. Enigmaticolus Fraussen, 2008 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 17 April 2010.
2. Chong Chen; Ting Xu; Koen Fraussen; Jian-Wen Qiu (2021). "Integrative taxonomy of enigmatic deep-sea true whelks in the sister-genera Enigmaticolus and Thermosipho (Gastropoda: Buccinidae)" . Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 193 (1): 230–240. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa134.
3. Enigmaticolus monnieri Fraussen, 2008 . Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species  on 17 April 2010.

• Fraussen K. 2008. Enigmaticolus, a new genus of deep water buccinids (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) with description of a new species from Madagascar. Gloria Maris, 46(4-5): 74-82
• Fraussen, K.; Stahlschmidt, P. (2016). The extensive Indo-Pacific deep-water radiation of Manaria E.A. Smith, 1906 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) and related genera, with descriptions of 21 new species. in: Héros, V. et al. (Ed.) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 29. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (1993). 208: 363–456.

External links

• Kantor Yu.I., Puillandre N., Fraussen K., Fedosov A.E. & Bouchet P. (2013) Deep-water Buccinidae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) from sunken wood, vents and seeps: Molecular phylogeny and taxonomy. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 93(8): 2177-2195