Indothais gradata

Indothais gradata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk, in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[1][2][3]

Indothais gradata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Rapaninae
Genus:	Indothais
Species:	I. gradata
Binomial name
Indothais gradata (Jonas, 1846)
Synonyms[1]
Cymia carinifera var. simplex Schepman, 1919 Purpura (Cuma) gradata Jonas, 1846 Purpura grateloupiana Petit de la Saussaye, 1850 Purpura trigona Reeve, 1846 Thais (Thaisella) gradata (Jonas, 1846) Thaisella gradata (Jonas, 1846)

References

1. MolluscaBase (2018). Indothais gradata (Jonas, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714480 on 2019-01-06
2. Claremont M., Vermeij G.J., Williams S.T. & Reid D.G. (2013) Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013]
3. Huang ZG. & Lin S. (1993). Biofouling of Deep Bay buoys. In: Morton B, editor. Proceedings of the first international conference on the marine biology of Hong Kong and the south China Sea. The marine biology of the South China Sea. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong.1: pp 153-165.

External links

• MNHN, Paris: syntype
• Petit, de la Saussaye. (1850). Description de coquilles nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 1: 402-406, pl. 13.
• Reeve, L. A. (1846). Monograph of the genus Purpura. In: Conchologia iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, Vol. 3. L. Reeve & Co., London. Pls. 1-13 and unpaginated text
• Schepman M. M. (1919). On a collection of land- and freshwater Mollusca and a few marine Mollusca chiefly collected by Dr. H.A. Lorentz from New Guinea, the Aru Islands, Timor and Borneo. Nova Guinea. Résultats de l'expédition scientifique néerlandaise à la Nouvelle-Guinée en 1912 et 1913 sous les auspices de A. Franssen Herderschee. Vol 8. Zoologie. pp 155-196, pls 4-8