Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Cephalaspidea > Superfamily Philinoidea > Family Philinidae > Subfamily Philininae > Genus Philine

Philine desmotis R. B. Watson, 1897

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: unresolved
Name Status: species inquirenda

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Philine*	Ascanius, 1772	accepted genus name
*Bulla (Bullea)*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Bullea*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Bullaea*	Lamarck, 1801	synonym
*Johania*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Lobaria*	O. F. Müller, 1776	synonym
*Philingwynia*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym

Literature

original description	Watson, R. B. (1897). On the marine Mollusca of Madeira; with descriptions of thirty-five new species, and an index-list of all the known sea-dwelling species of that island. Journal of the Linnean Society of London, Zoology. 26(19): 233-329, pl. 19-20.
additional source	Malaquias, M. A. (2004). The opisthobranch molluscs described by the Reverend Robert Boog Watson from the Madeira archipelago (Northeast Atlantic, Portugal). Journal of Conchology. 38(3): 231-240.
additional source	Malaquias M.A.E., Ohnheiser L.T., Oskars T.R. & Willassen E. (2017 [Code-compliant e-publication published 2016]). Diversity and systematics of philinid snails (Gastropoda: Cephalaspidea) in West Africa with remarks on the biogeography of the region. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 180(1): 1-35.
source of synonymy	Marquet, R.; Landau, B. (2006). The gastropod fauna of the Luchtbal Sand Member (Lillo Formation, Zanclean, Early Pliocene) of the Antwerp region (Belgium). Cainozoic Research. 5(1-2): 13-49.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Philine desmotis R. B. Watson, 1897. 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:140751