Sansonia (gastropod)

Sansonia is a genus of small sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the subfamily Pickworthiinae of the family Pickworthiidae.^[1]

Sansonia
Shell of Sansonia andamanica (syntype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Superfamily:	Cerithioidea
Family:	Pickworthiidae
Genus:	Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892
Type species
Iphitus tuberculatus R. B. Watson, 1886
Synonyms[1]
Mecoliotia Hedley, 1899 Pickworthia Iredale, 1917

Species

• Sansonia alisonae Le Renard & Bouchet, 2003
• Sansonia andamanica (Preston, 1908)
• Sansonia cebuana Bandel & Kowalke, 1997
• Sansonia costata Kase, 1998
• Sansonia halligani (Hedley, 1899)
• Sansonia hilutangensis Bandel & Kowalke, 1997
• Sansonia iejimensis Kase, 1998
• Sansonia kirkpatricki (Iredale, 1917)
• Sansonia nuda Kase, 1998
• Sansonia shigemitsui Kase, 1998
• Sansonia sumatrensis (Thiele, 1925)
• Sansonia tuberculata (R. B. Watson, 1886)

Synonyms

• Sansonia andrei Jousseaume, 1921: synonym of Sansonia kirkpatricki (Iredale, 1917)
• Sansonia christinae Selli, 1974: synonym of Sansonia kirkpatricki (Iredale, 1917)
• Sansonia fauroti Jousseaume, 1921: synonym of Sansonia andamanica (Preston, 1908)
• † Sansonia italica Raffi & Taviani, 1985: synonym of Mareleptopoma minor (Almera & Bofill, 1898)
• † Sansonia kenneyi (Ladd, 1966): synonym of † Mareleptopoma kenneyi (Ladd, 1966)
• Sansonia sansonia Jousseaume, 1921: synonym of Sansonia andamanica (Preston, 1908)
• Sansonia semisculpta Espinosa & Fernández-Garcés, 1990: synonym of Cubasansonia semisculpta (Espinosa & Fernández-Garcés, 1990) (original combination)
• Sansonia umbilicata Jousseaume, 1921: synonym of Sansonia andamanica (Preston, 1908)

References

1. MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391578 on 2022-05-01

External links

• Iredale, T. (1917). On some new species of marine mollusca from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 12: 331-334.