Niso
| Niso | |
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| Niso hizenensis | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Mollusca |
| Class: | Gastropoda |
| Subclass: | Caenogastropoda |
| Order: | Littorinimorpha |
| Superfamily: | Vanikoroidea |
| Family: | Eulimidae |
| Genus: | Niso Risso, 1826 |
| Type species | |
| Boreotrophon echinus Dall, 1918 | |
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Niso is a genus of very small parasitic sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Eulimidae.
General characteristics
Eulimidae having the base broadly umbilicated.
Species
According to the World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) the following species with accepted names are included within the genus Niso
- † Niso acarinatoconica Sacco, 1892
- Niso aeglees Bush, 1885
- Niso albida Dall, 1889
- Niso alfredensis Bartsch, 1915
- † Niso angusta Deshayes, 1862
- † Niso antiselli Anderson and Martin, 1914
- Niso attilioi (Hertz & Hertz, 1982)
- Niso balteata G. B. Sowerby III, 1900
- † Niso basiglobosa Marwick, 1942
- Niso baueri Emerson, 1965
- Niso brunnea (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
- † Niso canaliculata Koenen, 1882
- Niso candidula A. Adams, 1854
- Niso chevreuxi Dautzenberg, 1891
- Niso circinata Dall, 1889
- † Niso constricta Deshayes, 1862
- † Niso degrangei Cossmann & Peyrot, 1917 [citation needed]
- Niso dorcas Kuroda & Habe, 1950
- † Niso eburnea Risso, 1826
- Niso emersoni McLean, 1970
- Niso excolpa Bartsch, 1917
- Niso foresti Bouchet & Warén, 1986
- Niso goniostoma A. Adams, 1854
- † Niso grandis Gabb, 1873
- Niso hendersoni Bartsch, 1953
- Niso hizensis Kuroda & Habe, 1950
- Niso imbricata (Sowerby I, 1834)
- Niso interrupta (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
- † Niso kimberi Pritchard, 1906
- Niso lomana Bartsch, 1917
- Niso marmorata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
- Niso matsumotoi Kuroda & Habe, 1961
- Niso microforis Dall, 1927
- † Niso minuta Gabb, 1873
- † Niso morleti Cossmann, 1888
- Niso nakayasui Habe, 1976
- † Niso neozelanica Suter, 1917
- † Niso obtusocarinata Makiyama, 1927
- Niso penipauliasi T. Cossignani & Lorenz, 2022
- † Niso polita Gabb, 1864
- Niso portoricensis Dall & Simpson, 1901
- † Niso psila Tenison Woods, 1879
- Niso pura (Melvill & Standen, 1901)
- † Niso putata Finlay & Marwick, 1937
- Niso pyramidelloides Nevill, 1871
- Niso regia Kuroda & Habe, 1950
- Niso richardi Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1897
- Niso rubrapicata Habe, 1976
- Niso smithi Schepman, 1909
- Niso splendidula (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
- Niso stenomphala Kuroda & Habe, 1950
- Niso sumatrana Thiele, 1925
- † Niso terebellata (Lamarck, 1804)
- Niso terebellum (Dillwyn, 1817)
- Niso tetuakii Habe, 1949
- Niso tricolor Dall, 1889
- Niso trilineata Mörch, 1872
- † Niso turrioides C.-H. Hu, 1991
- † Niso umbilicata (I. Lea, 1833)
- Niso venosa Sowerby III, 1895
- Niso yokoyamai Kuroda & Habe, 1950
- Species brought into synonymy
- Niso babylonica (Bartsch, 1912): synonym of Niso rangi (de Folin, 1867)
- Niso hipolitensis Bartsch, 1917: synonym of Subniso hipolitensis (Bartsch, 1917) (original combination)
- Niso joubini Dautzenberg & Fischer H., 1897: synonym of Costaclis mizon (Watson, 1881)
- Niso mucronetincta Thiele, 1925 : synonym of Thaleia mucronetincta (Thiele, 1925)
- Niso quadrasi Boettger, 1893: synonym of Stilifer variabilis O. Boettger, 1893
- Niso rangi (de Folin, 1867): synonym of Subniso rangi (de Folin, 1867)
- Niso rubropicta [sic]: synonym of Niso rubrapicata Habe, 1976 (misspelling)
- Niso sandwichensis [sic]: synonym of Apicalia sandvichensis (G.B. Sowerby II, 1865)
References
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- 1 2 Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2010). Niso Risso, 1826. 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=137981 on 2011-01-07
- ↑ Bartsch, P. (1917). "A monograph of west American melanellid mollusks". Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 53 (2207): 348. Retrieved 4 October 2026.
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- Warén A. (1984) A generic revision of the family Eulimidae (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Journal of Molluscan Studies suppl. 13: 1-96. page(s): 59
- Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180–213