Gastropoda - Sorbeoconcha - Naticidae
Alternative spellings: Natica (Polinices), Natica (Polynices), Polynices
Synonyms: Albula Röding 1798, Dallitesta Mansfield 1930, Eucaryorum Ehrenberg 1831, Mamma Blainville 1823, Natica (Mamma) Blainville 1823, Naticella Swainson 1840, Polinices (Dallitesta) Mansfield 1930
Parent taxon: Polinicinae according to T. Huelsken et al. 2012
See also Addicott 1970, Arnold 1903, Beu et al. 1990, Clark and Arnold 1923, Durham 1944, Frassinetti and Covacevich 1995, Gardner 1947, Gazdzicki and Pugaczewska 1984, Harris and Palmer 1947, Harzhauser 2002, Hendy 2007, Hickman 1980, Kabat 1991, Ladd 1977, Landau and Marques da Silva 2010, MacNeil 1960, Majima 1989, Marasti 1973, Marincovich 1977, Martin 1904, Moore 1976, Nagao 1928, Nagao 1928, Olsson 1931, Pastorino 2005, Rivera 1957, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 1984, Squires 1987, Todd 2001, Turner 1938, Vredenburg 1928, Ward and Blackwelder 1987, Wienrich 2001, Wilson 1993 and Woodring 1928
Sister taxa: Bulbus, Calinaticina, Cepatia, Choristes, Conuber, Euspira, Falsilunatia, Kerguelenatica, Mammilla, Neverita, Payraudeautia, Pliconacca, Poliniciella, Sigaticus, Uberella
Subtaxa: Natica (Polinices) togoensis Naticella arctecostata Naticella bronnii Naticella compressa Naticella praesublineata Naticella tuba Polinices (Conuber) Polinices (Hypterita) Polinices (Polinella) Polinices (Polinices) Polinices albumen Polinices albus Polinices blaesus Polinices candidissimus Polinices cerovaensis Polinices coensis Polinices conicus Polinices dubius Polinices eminulus Polinices fallai Polinices flemingianus Polinices gainesanus Polinices hepaticus Polinices hornii Polinices incei Polinices intemeratus Polinices intermeratus Polinices kummeli Polinices lacteus Polinices lavelana Polinices lobatus Polinices mammata Polinices mammilla Polinices melanostomus Polinices mercedensis Polinices otis Polinices panamaensis Polinices peselephanti Polinices porcana Polinices powisiana Polinices prolactea Polinices pseudoredempta Polinices recluziana Polinices redemptus Polinices repenningi Polinices sebae Polinices shumardianus Polinices simiae Polinices sookensis Polinices sordidus Polinices stanislasmeunieri Polinices subtenuis Polinices susanaensis Polinices uber Polinices victorianus Polinices waipaensis Polinices washingtonensis Polinices weisbordi Polynices consimilis Polynices hornii Polynices jorgensis Polynices ortmanni Polynices santacrucensis
Type: Polinices albus
Ecology: semi-infaunal carnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), the Bahamas (3), Bermuda (1), Cape Verde (1), Cayman Islands (3), Chile (3), Costa Rica (3), Cuba (1), Djibouti (1), Ecuador (4), Eritrea (1), French Polynesia (1), Haiti (3), India (1), Jamaica (2), Japan (5), Kenya (1), Mexico (11), Mozambique (1), Panama (1), Peru (6), the Philippines (1), Portugal (6), Saudi Arabia (1), the Seychelles (4), South Africa (3), Spain (3), Sudan (1), Taiwan (2), United States (16: California, Florida, Hawaii, Mississippi, North Carolina), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (2), Yemen (3)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Ecuador (1), Malaysia (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of Antarctica (1), Australia (1), Belgium (1), Chile (2), Colombia (4), Costa Rica (9), the Dominican Republic (13), Ecuador (14), Fiji (2), India (1), Indonesia (7), Jamaica (5), Japan (6), Mexico (5), New Zealand (3), Panama (12), Papua New Guinea (1), Peru (3), the Philippines (3), Trinidad and Tobago (1), United States (10: California, Florida), Venezuela (10)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Chile (1), the Dominican Republic (4)
• Miocene of Algeria (2), Argentina (11), Australia (4), Austria (8), Brazil (1), Chile (3), Colombia (46), the Dominican Republic (60), Ecuador (4), Fiji (2), France (2), French Southern Territories (1), Germany (11), Greece (1), Grenada (8), Haiti (3), India (1), Indonesia (22), Italy (7), Japan (5), New Zealand (15), Panama (91), Peru (5), the Philippines (1), Poland (1), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Trinidad and Tobago (13), United States (12: California, Florida, New Jersey), Venezuela (19)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Oligocene of Argentina (3), Bulgaria (1), France (33), Germany (1), Hungary (3), Japan (1), Mexico (1), New Zealand (12), Panama (5), the Russian Federation (1), United States (17: California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, Washington)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Argentina (2), Haiti (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (19), Canada (1: British Columbia), Colombia (4), France (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Japan (2), the Netherlands Antilles (2), New Zealand (8), Panama (5), Peru (3), the Russian Federation (2), the United Kingdom (3), United States (207: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oregon, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia, Washington)
• Paleocene to Eocene of Mali (1)
• Paleocene of Argentina (3), Greenland (3), Mexico (4), New Zealand (6), Nigeria (1), United States (80: Alabama, Alaska, California, Louisiana, Texas)
• Cretaceous of Canada (7: Alberta), Chile (1), United States (71: Alabama, California, Georgia, Maryland, Minnesota, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Germany (4), Hungary (2), Indonesia (2), Italy (4)
Total: 1120 collections including 1265 occurrences
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