Siratus

Belongs within: Muricidae.

Siratus is a genus of muricid gastropods found in the western Atlantic, characterised by shells with three spinose varices, a long, dorsally deflected siphonal canal, no labral tooth, and usually a pattern of brown and white spiral bands (Vokes 1990).

<==Siratus Jousseaume 1880V90
    |--S. senegalensis (Gmelin 1791)S11 (see below for synonymy)
    |--S. articulatus (Reeve 1845) [=Chicoreus (Siratus) articulatus; incl. Murex finlayi Clench 1955]BC01
    |--S. beauii (Fischer & Bernardi 1857)S11
    |--S. cailleti (Petit de la Saussaye 1856) [=Chicoreus (Siratus) cailleti]V90
    |    |--S. c. cailletiV90
    |    `--S. c. kugleri (Clench & Pérez Farfante 1945) [=Chicoreus (Siratus) cailleti kugleri]V90
    |--S. coltrotum (Vokes 1990) [=Chicoreus (Siratus) coltrotum]V90
    |--S. consuela (Verrill 1950)V90 (see below for synonymy)
    |--S. domingensis (Sowerby 1850) [=Murex domingensis, Chicoreus (Siratus) domingensis]V90
    |--S. formosus (Sowerby 1841)S11
    |--S. motacilla (Gmelin 1791) [=Chicoreus (Siratus) motacilla]V90
    |--S. pliciferoides (Kuroda 1942)W94
    |--S. springeri (Bullis 1964) [=Murex springeri, Chicoreus (Siratus) springeri]BC01
    |--S. tenuivaricosus (Dautzenberg 1927)S11
    `--S. thompsoni (Bullis 1964) [=Murex thompsoni, Chicoreus (Siratus) thompsoni]BC01

Siratus consuela (Verrill 1950)^V90 [=Murex pulcher consuela^BC01, Chicoreus (Siratus) consuela^V90; incl. M. pulcher Adams 1853 nec Sowerby 1813 nec DeFrance 1827^V90]

Siratus senegalensis (Gmelin 1791)^S11 [=Murex senegalensis^V90; incl. Purpura sirat Adanson 1757 (pre-Linnaean)^RA75, *Siratus sirat^V90]

*Type species of generic name indicated

References

[BC01] Boyko, C. B., & J. R. Cordeiro. 2001. Catalog of Recent type specimens in the Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History. V. Mollusca, part 2 (class Gastropoda [exclusive of Opisthobranchia and Pulmonata], with supplements to Gastropoda [Opisthobranchia], and Bivalvia). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 262: 1–170.

[RA75] Radwin, G. E., & A. D’Attilio. 1975. A catalogue of muricacean generic taxa. Transactions of the San Diego Society of Natural History 17 (20): 279–292.

[S11] Simone, L. R. L. 2011. Phylogeny of the Caenogastropoda (Mollusca), based on comparative morphology. Arquivos de Zoologia 42 (4): 161–323.

[V90] Vokes, E. H. 1990. Two new species of Chicoreus subgenus Siratus (Gastropoda: Muricidae) from northeastern Brazil. Nautilus 103 (4): 124–130.

[W94] Wilson, B. 1994. Australian Marine Shells vol. 2. Prosobranch Gastropods. Part Two (Neogastropods). Odyssey Publishing: Kallaroo (Western Australia).