Thais (gastropod)
Thais, sometimes known by the common names dog winkles or rock shells, is a genus of medium to large predatory sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock shells.Species
Species within the genus Thais include:
- Thais aculeata Deshayes & Milne-Edwards, 1844
- Thais ambustulatus Hedley, 1912
- Thais bitubercularis
- Thais blanfordi
- Thais cingulifera
- Thais echinulata
- Thais intermedia
- Thais lacera
- Thais mancinella Linnaeus
- Thais sacellum
- Thais savignyi
- Thais tricolorata Bozzetti, 2010
- Thais wutingi Tan, 1997
;Subgenus Thais Link, 1807
- Thais alouina
- Thais echinata
- Thais grossa Houart, 2001
- Thais herberti Houart, 1998
- Thais lata
- Thais marmorata
- Thais siro Kuroda, 1931
;Subgenus Thais Cooke, 1918
; Subgenus Thais Röding, 1798
- Thais bimaculata
- Thais callaoensis
- Thais nodosa
- Thais speciosa
- Thais triangularis
; Subgenus Thais Clench, 1947
- Thais callifera
- Thais coronata
- Thais dubia
- Thais gradata
- Thais javanica
- Thais jubilaea Tan & Sigurdsson, 1990
- Thais keluo Tan & Liu, 2001
- Thais kiosquiformis
- Thais langi Clench & Turner, 1948
- Thais luteostoma Holton, 1803
- Thais malayensis Tan & Sigurdsson, 1996
- Thais mariae Morettes, 1954
- Thais pinangensis Tan & Sigurdsson, 1996
- Thais rufotincta Tan & Sigurdsson, 1996
- Thais tissoti
; Subgenus Thais H. & A. Adams, 1853
- Thais deltoidea - deltoid rocksnail
- Thais tuberosa
- Thais tumulosa
- Thais virgata
; Subgenus Thais Mörch, 1860
Species also mentioned in ITIS, the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database and in the Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca
- Thais clavigera Köster, 1858
- Thais chocolata - Locate
- Thais delessertiana
- Thais lamellosa
- Thais orbita - White rock shell
- Thais rustica Rustic rocksnail
- Thais savignyi
- Thais trinitatensis
- Thais undata Lamarck
- Thais woodwardi
; Species brought into synonymy :
- Thais aperta Blainville, 1832: synonym of Drupa aperta
- Thais bronni : synonym of Reishia bronni
- Thais carinifera: synonym of Thais lacera
- Thais emarginata : synonym of Nucella emarginata
- Thais gemmulata: synonym of Thais alouina
- Thais grandis : synonym of Neorapana grandis
- Thais haemastoma : synonym of Stramonita haemastoma
- Thais hippocastanum : synonym of Thais virgata
- Thais lapillus Linnaeus, 1758 - the dog whelk: synonym of Nucella lapillus
- Thais muricata : synonym of Neorapana muricata
- Thais pica Blainville: synonym of Thais tuberosa
- Thais stellata Röding, 1798: synonym of Stramonita haemastoma
- Thais tuberculata : synonym of Neorapana tuberculata
