Belongs within: Fasciolariinae.
Latirus is a cosmopolitan genus of heavy-shelled gastropods with a plicate columella (Wilson 1994).
Characters (Wilson 1994): Elongate to stoutly fusiform, sturdy, siphonal canal length about equal to or less than spire height; columella plicate anteriorly. Radular central teeth quadrate with three pointed basal cusps; laterals elongate with basal row of pointed subequal cusps.
Latirus Montfort 1810 (see below for synonymy)W94
|--L. gibbulus (Gmelin 1791)S88 (see below for synonymy)
|--L. amplustris (Dillwyn 1817)BW09 [=Buccinum (Latirus) aplustreC64, Murex amplustreC64]
|--L. angulatus (Röding 1798)S88
|--L. angustus Smith 1884H09
|--L. australiensis (Reeve 1847) [=Turbinella australiensis]H09
|--L. belcheri (Reeve 1847)WG71
|--L. brevicaudatus (Reeve 1847)W62
|--L. castaneusC64
|--L. ceratus [incl. L. tuberculatus, Turbinella tubercularis]C64
|--L. craticulatus (Linnaeus 1758) [=Murex craticulatus]H09
|--L. deynzerorum Emerson & Sage 1990BC01
|--L. fusiformis Hoernes & Auinger 1891F27
|--L. infundibulumW62
| |--L. i. infundibulumW62
| `--L. i. polius Woodring 1928W62
|--L. jucundus McGinty 1940W62
|--L. lanceolatus (Reeve 1847)W94
|--L. lynchiC60
|--L. martini Snyder 1988S88
|--L. neozelanicus [=Peristernia neozelanica]F26
|--L. niger Odhner 1917WBS-S15
|--L. nodatus (Gmelin 1791) [incl. L. rigidus Wood 1828, L. robillardi Tapparone-Canefri 1879]W94
|--L. paetelianus (Kobelt 1876)WG71
| |--L. p. paetelianusWG71
| `--L. p. carpentariensis Hedley 1912WG71
|--L. pictus Reeve 1847WG71
|--L. polygonus Gmelin 1791WG71 [=Murex polygonusH09; incl. L. barclayi Reeve 1847W94, L. lignarius Perry 1811W94]
|--L. pulleinei Verco 1905W94
|--L. recticanalis (Weisbord 1962) [=L. (Polygona) recticanalis]W62
|--L. recurvirostris Schubert & Wagner 1829WG71 [=Turbinella recurvirostrisH09]
|--L. rudisC64
|--L. squamosus Pease 1863 [=Sistrum squamosum]K65
|--L. staminatus Garrard 1966W94
|--L. trochlearisW62
|--L. turritus (Gmelin 1791) [incl. L. lineata Lamarck 1816, L. subfuscus Tapparone-Canefri 1882]W94
|--L. vermeiji (Petuch 1986)S88
|--L. virginensis Abbott 1958B59 [=L. (Polygona) virginensisB59; incl. L. karinae Usticke 1969BC01]
`--L. walkeri Melvill 1895WG71
Nomen nudum: Latirus mysticusA26
Latirus Montfort 1810 [incl. Eolatirus Bellardi 1883, Lathyrus Latrielle 1825, Plesiolatirus Bellardi 1883, Polygona Schumacher 1817; Latiridae]W94
Latirus gibbulus (Gmelin 1791)S88 [=Murex gibbulus H09; incl. L. aurantia Perry 1811W94, *L. aurantiacus Montfort 1810 S88, L. ecaudata Link 1807W94, L. filosus Lamarck 1816W94, L. tapetepersicum Röding 1791W94]
*Type species of generic name indicated
References
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[S88] Snyder, M. A. 1988. Latirus martini (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae), a new species from Honduras. Nautilus 102 (2): 54–55.
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[WBS-S15] Willan, R. C., C. Bryce & S. M. Slack-Smith. 2015. Kimberley marine biota. Historical data: molluscs. Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement 84: 287–343.
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