Demoulia

Demoulia
	Two shells of Demoulia abbreviata (museum specimens at Naturalis Biodiversity Center)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda; clade Hypsogastropoda; clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Nassariidae
Subfamily:	Nassariinae
Genus:	Demoulia; Gray, 1838
Type species
	Buccinum retusum Lamarck, 1822;
Synonyms
	Demoulea Gray, 1847; Demoulinsia (incorrect subsequent spelling); Desmoulea Gray, 1847; Desmoulinsia Woodward, 1851; Moulinsia Tournouer, 1874 (not available: not used as a valid name); Nassa (Demoulea) [sic] (incorrect subsequent spelling of Demoulia Gray, 1838); Nassa (Demoulia) Gray, 1838; Nassa (Desmoulea) [sic] (incorrect subsequent spelling of Demoulia Gray, 1838); Streptorhega Bronn, 1856;

Demoulia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Nassariidae, the Nassa mud snails or dog whelks.^[1]

Species

Species within the genus Demoulia include:

Demoulia kurodai Tomlin, 1932 : synonym of Nassarius sufflatus (Gould, 1860)
Demoulia pulchra Gray, 1838 : synonym of Demoulia obtusata (Link, 1807)
Demoulia retusa (Lamarck, 1822): synonym of Demoulia ventricosa (Lamarck, 1816)

Gray J.E. (1838) On some new species of quadrupeds and shells. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, series 1, 1, 27–30.
Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp
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

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