Cladus: Eukaryota
Supergroup: Opisthokonta
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Spiralia
Cladus: Lophotrochozoa
Phylum: Mollusca
Classis: Gastropoda
Subclassis: Orthogastropoda
Superordo: Caenogastropoda
Ordo: Sorbeoconcha
Subordo: Hypsogastropoda
Infraordo: Littorinimorpha
Superfamilia: Laubierinoidea
Familia: Ranellidae
Subfamilia: Cymatiinae
Genus: Charonia
Species: C. lampas - C. tritonis - C. variegata
Name
Charonia Gistl, [1847] [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology with Name No. 1846, by China (1969: 128)]
Gender: feminine
Type species: Murex tritonis Linnaeus, 1758
Fixation: original designation
Synonyms
Triton Montfort, 1810 [placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology with Name No. 1951, by China (1969: 129)] [junior homonym]
Type species: Murex tritonis Linnaeus, 1758
Fixation: monotypy
?Tritonalia Fleming, 1828 [placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology with Name No. 1950, by China (1969: 129), suppressed, by China (1969: 128), for the purposes of the Law of Priority but not for those of the Law of Homonymy] [see also Ocenebra]
References
Bradley, J.C.; Palmer, K.V.W. 1963: The cases of Purpura and Ceratostoma. Z.N.(S.) 1088. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 20: 251-253, plus comment by Hall, C.A. on p. 254. BHL BioStor
China, W.E. 1969: Opinion 886. Purpura Bruguière and Muricanthus Swainson (Gastropoda): designations of type-species under the plenary powers with grant of precedence to Thaididae over Purpuridae. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 26: 128-132. BHL BioStor
Fleming, J. 1828: History of British animals. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute. BHL [see. p. 356 and corrigenda]
Montfort 1810: Conch. Syst., 2: 586. [not seen]
links
Triton in the World Register of Marine Species
Charonia in the World Register of Marine Species
ION search for Tritonalia
Nomenclator Zoologicus search for Tritonalia
