Tectarius

Tectarius
Shell of Tectarius coronatus at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Littorinoidea
Family:	Littorinidae
Subfamily:	Littorininae
Genus:	Tectarius Valenciennes, 1833
Type species
Tectarius coronatus Valenciennes 1832
Synonyms[1]
Cidaris Röding, 1798 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cidaris Leske, 1778 [Echinodermata]) Echinella Swainson, 1840 Echinellopsis Rovereto, 1899 Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942 Liralittorina Rosewater, 1981 Nina Gray, 1850 (Invalid: junior homonym of Nina Horsfield, 1829 [Lepidoptera]; Echininus is a replacement name) Pagodella Swainson, 1840 Pagodus Gray, 1839 Tectaria (misspelling) Tectarius (Echininiopsis) D.G. Reid, 1989 Tectarius (Echininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942 Tectarius (Tectarius) Valenciennes, 1832 Tectarius (Tectininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942 Tectininus Clench & Abbott, 1942

Tectarius is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Tectarius include:

• Tectarius antonii (Philippi, 1846)^[2]
• Tectarius coronatus (Valenciennes, 1832)^[3]
• Tectarius cumingii (Philippi, 1846)^[4]
• Tectarius grandinatus (Gmelin, 1791)^[5]
• Tectarius niuensis Reid & Geller, 1997^[6]
• Tectarius pagodus (Linnaeus, 1758)^[7]
• Tectarius rusticus (Philippi, 1846)^[8]
• Tectarius spinulosus (Philippi, 1847)^[9]
• Tectarius striatus (King & Broderip, 1832)^[10]
• Tectarius tectumpersicum (Linnaeus, 1758)^[11]
• Tectarius viviparus (Rosewater, 1982)^[12]

Species brought into synonymy

• Tectarius bullatus (Martyn, 1784): syno,nym of Tectarius grandinatus (Gmelin, 1791)
• Tectarius feejeensis (Reeve, 1857): synonym of Echinolittorina feejeensis (Reeve, 1857)
• Tectarius granosus (Philippi, 1845):^[13] synonym of Echinolittorina granosa (Philippi, 1845)
• Tectarius miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832): synonym of Echinolittorina miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833)
• Tectarius montrouzieri P. Fischer, 1878: synonym of Perrinia angulifera (A. Adams, 1853)
• Tectarius muricatus (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Cenchritis muricatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Subgenus Tectarius (Echininus) represented as Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942 (alternate representation)

References

1. Tectarius Valenciennes, 1833. Reid, David G. (2010). Tectarius Valenciennes, 1833. In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2010) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204037 on 17 June 2012.
2. Tectarius antonii (Philippi, 1846).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
3. Tectarius coronatus (Valenciennes, 1832).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
4. Tectarius cumingii (Philippi, 1846).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
5. Tectarius grandinatus (Gmelin, 1791).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
6. Tectarius niuensis Reid & Geller, 1997.  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
7. Tectarius pagodus (Linnaeus, 1758).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
8. Tectarius rusticus (Philippi, 1846).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
9. Tectarius spinulosus (Philippi, 1847).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
10. Tectarius striatus (King & Broderip, 1832).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
11. Tectarius tectumpersicum (Linnaeus, 1758).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
12. Tectarius viviparus (Rosewater, 1982).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.
13. Tectarius granosus (Philippi, 1845).  Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 6 June 2010.

• Bandel, K. & D. Kadolsky (1982). Western Atlantic Species of Nodolittorina (Gastropda: Prosobranchia): comparative morphology and its functional, ecological, phylogenetic and taxonomic implications. Veliger 25 (1): 1-42.
• Reid D.G. (1989). Systematic revision of the Recent species of Peasiella Nevill, 1885 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae), with notes on the fossil species. The Nautilus 103(2): 43-69
• Reid D.G. & Geller J.B. (1997). A new ovoviviparious species of Tectarius (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) from Niue, South Pacific, with a molecular phylogeny of the genus. Journal of Molluscan Studies 63:207-233

External links