Cataegis
Cataegis is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cataegidae.[2]
| Cataegis Temporal range:   | |
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| fossil Cataegis godineauensis from the late Miocene | |
| Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia | 
| Phylum: | Mollusca | 
| Class: | Gastropoda | 
| Subclass: | Vetigastropoda | 
| Superfamily: | Seguenzioidea | 
| Family: | Cataegidae | 
| Genus: | Cataegis McLean & Quinn, 1987  | 
| Type species | |
| Cataegis toreuta McLean & Quinn, 1987  | |
Species
    
Species within the genus Cataegis include:
- Cataegis celebesensis McLean & Quinn, 1987
 - Cataegis finkli (Petuch, 1987)
 - † Cataegis godineauensis Van Winkle, 1919[1]
 - Cataegis leucogranulatus (Fu & Sun, 2006)
 - † Cataegis nakagawensis Kaim, R. G. Jenkins & Hikida, 2009
 - Cataegis pleres Vilvens, 2016
 - Cataegis stroggile Vilvens, 2016
 - Cataegis tallorbioides Vilvens, 2016
 
- Species brought into synonymy
 
- Cataegis meroglypta McLean & Quinn, 1987:[3] synonym of Kanoia meroglypta (McLean & Quinn, 1987) (original combination)
 - Cataegis toreuta McLean & Quinn, 1987: synonym of Cataegis finkli (Petuch, 1987)
 
References
    
- Kiel S. & Hansen B. T. (2015). "Cenozoic Methane-Seep Faunas of the Caribbean Region". PLoS ONE 10(10): e0140788. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140788.
 - Cataegis. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 5 September 2010.
 - Cataegis meroglypta McLean & Quinn, 1987. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 18 April 2010.
 
- McLean J.H. & Quinn J.F. (1987). Cataegis, new genus of three new species from the continental slope (Trochidae: Cataeginae New subfamily). The Nautilus. 101(3): 111-116.
 - Warén A. & Bouchet P. (1993) New records, species, genera, and a new family of gastropods from hydrothermal vents and hydrocarbon seeps. Zoologica Scripta 22: 1-90.
 
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