Genus Phanerophthalmus A. Adams, 1850

Museums

Regional Maps

• Phanerophthalmus Adams, A. 1850. Monograph of the family Bullidae. pp. 553–608 in Sowerby, G.B. (ed). Thesaurus Conchyliorum, or figures and descriptions of Recent shells. London Vol. 2.

  Type species:

   Bulla lutea Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 by original designation.
• Cryptophthalmus Ehrenberg, 1828 [[in Hemprich & Ehrenberg] Symbolae physicae..., Decas prima: Mollusca I, fig. 2].

  Type species:

   Cryptophthalmus olivaceus Ehrenberg, 1828 by monotypy.
• Lathophthalmus Pruvot-Fol, 1931 [Bulletin du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, ser. 2, 3(8): 748].

  Type species:

   Cryptophthalmus olivaceus Ehrenberg, 1828 (by typification of replaced name) by subsequent designation.
• Xanthonella Gray, 1850.

Taxonomic Decision for Synonymy

• Rudman, W.B. 1972. The herbivorous opisthobranch genera Phanerophthalmus A. Adams and Smaragdinella A. Adams. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 40: 189-210

Distribution

States

Queensland

IBRA and IMCRA regions

IMCRA

Northeast Shelf Province (40)

General References

Oskars, T.R., Too, C.C., Rees, D., Mikkelsen, P.M., Willassen, E. & Malaquias, M.A.E. 2019. A molecular phylogeny of the gastropod family Haminoeidae sensu lato (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): a generic revision. Invertebrate Systematics 2019 33: 426-472 [443]

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