Tibia (gastropod)

Tibia
	Many views of a shell of Tibia fusus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda ; clade Sorbeoconcha; clade Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Rostellariidae
Genus:	Tibia; Röding, 1798
Type species
	Murex fusus Linnaeus, 1758;
Species
	See text
Synonyms
	Gladius Mörch, 1852 (junior objective synonym of Tibia); Gladius (Rostellaria); Rostellaria Lamarck, 1799 (junior objective synonym of Tibia); Rostellum Montfort, 1810 (unnecessary substitute name or unjustified emendation of Rostellaria);

Tibia is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks.^[2]

This genus was traditionally considered to be part of the family Strombidae, the true conchs and their allies. However, recent morphological as well as molecular studies indicate that these ("shinbone shells") should be recognised as a separate family, the Rostellariidae, and this is the way they are treated in the database WoRMS.

The recent species belong to three distinct genera, but several more genera are known from the fossil record.

Species

Species within the genus Tibia include:

Tibia curta (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842) - Tuticorin, Southern India
Tibia fusus (Linnaeus, 1758) - Philippines
Tibia insulaechorab (Röding, 1798) - Red Sea
Tibia melanocheilus (A. Adams, 1854) - Turtle Island, Philippines; Brunei

Species brought into synonymy

Tibia delicatula Nevill, 1881 : synonym of Rostellariella delicatula (G. Nevill, 1881)
Tibia deliculata [sic]: synonym of Rostellariella delicatula (G. Nevill, 1881)
Tibia indiarum Röding, 1798: synonym of Tibia fusus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Tibia laurenti Duchamps, 1992: synonym of Rimellopsis powisii (Petit de la Saussaye, 1840)
Tibia luteostoma Angas, 1878: synonym of Tibia insulaechorab Röding, 1798
Tibia martinii Marrat, 1877: synonym of Rostellariella martinii (Marrat, 1877)
Tibia powisii (Petit de la Saussaye, 1840): synonym of Rimellopsis powisii (Petit de la Saussaye, 1840)

Note:

Tibia serrata (Perry, 1811) is now considered to be an aberrant morph of Tibia curta (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)
Tibia serrata (G. Perry, 1811) - no longer valid^[3]

Related genera

Genus Rostellariella

Rostellariella delicatula (Nevill, 1881) - Northern Indian Ocean
Rostellariella lorenzi H. Morrison, 2005 - Arafura Sea, Indonesia
Rostellariella martinii (Marrat, 1877) - Philippines

Genus Rimellopsis

Rimellopsis powisii (Petit de la Saussaye, 1840) - Cebu, Philippines

References

^ Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg.
^ Bouchet, P. (2015). Tibia Röding, 1798. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204325 on 2016-01-30
^ Romagna-Manoja, E., 1977. Tibia serrata is no longer a "ghost species." La Conchiglia 102-103: 3-4 + cover photo. Sept.-Oct.

External links

[1] Röding P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. pp. [1-3], [1-8], 1-199. Hamburg.

[WoRMS-2] Bouchet, P. (2015). Tibia Röding, 1798. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204325 on 2016-01-30

[3] Romagna-Manoja, E., 1977. Tibia serrata is no longer a "ghost species." La Conchiglia 102-103: 3-4 + cover photo. Sept.-Oct.

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