Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Caenogastropoda incertae sedis > Superfamily Epitonioidea > Family Epitoniidae

Janthina Röding, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Amethistina [sic] orthographic variant
Ianthina orthographic variant
Achates Gistel, 1848 synonym
Janthina (Achates) Gistel, 1848 synonym

Children

Ianthina nitens Menke, 1828
Janthina cimbrica Sorgenfrei, 1958
Janthina exigua Lamarck, 1816
Janthina globosa Swainson, 1822
Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Janthina pallida W. Thompson, 1840

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Japanese: アサガオガイ属

Literature

original description

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp.

basis of record

Beu, A. G. (2017). Evolution of Janthina and Recluzia (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Epitoniidae). Records of the Australian Museum. 69(3): 119-222.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Janthina Röding, 1798. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138092

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Occurrence

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Environment


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Importance

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2017-08-25 by Philippe Bouchet

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