Euthria Explained
Euthria is a genus of sea snails belonging to the whelk family Tudiclidae. The genus contains many fossil and extant species.[1]
Distribution
The range of Euthria ranges from the Mediterranean Sea, the eastern Atlantic, regions around southern Africa and the western Indo-Pacific. Euthria erythraea is the first recorded of this genus from the Red Sea.[2] This genus shows a highs degree of endemism with an example being seen in the Canary Islands archipelago where Euthria sophiae, Euthria macarroni, Euthria candoris and Euthria silviae can be found.[3] [4]
Evolutionary history
The fossil record of this genus starts from the Eocene epoch and it continues to the modern day. During the Oligocene epoch and Neogene period, this genus har experienced a significant expansion of range from the Atlanto-Mediterranean region and the Paratethys seas.
Species
Species within the genus Euthria include:
- Euthria abrotona Fraussen & Rolán, 2003
- Euthria adeles Dautzenberg & Fisher, 1906
- †Euthria adunca (Bronn, 1831)
- Euthria amorimi Fraussen, 2004
- Euthria annegretae Schoenherr & Rolán, 2017
- Euthria aracanense Angas, 1873
- Euthria bernardi Rolán, Monteiro & Fraussen, 2003
- Euthria boavistensis Cosel, 1982
- Euthria calderoni Rolán, 1985
- Euthria calypso Cosel & Burnay, 1983
- †Euthria ceddensis Brunetti & Della Bella, 2016
- Euthria cesari Monteiro & Rolan, 2005
- Euthria chinense (MacNeil, 1961)
- Euthria cornea (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Euthria cumulata Fraussen & Hadorn, 2003
- †Euthria curvirostris (Grateloup, 1845)
- Euthria darwini Monteiro & Rolan, 2005
- Euthria effendyi Fraussen & Dharma, 2002
- Euthria emilioi Fraussen & Afonso, 2011
- Euthria erythraea Fraussen & Stahlschmidt, 2020
- Euthria fernandesi Rolán, Monteiro & Fraussen, 2003
- Euthria fiadeiroi Fraussen & Swinnen, 2020
- †Euthria friedbergi Baluk, 1995
- †Euthria fuscocingulata (Hoernes & Auinger, 1890)
- Euthria galopimi
- Euthria helenae Rolán, Monteiro & Fraussen, 2003
- Euthria inesae Fraussen, Monteiro & Swinnen, 2012
- Euthria insulabris Fraussen & Rolan, 2003
- †Euthria intermedia Michelotti, 1839
- Euthria japonica (Shuto, 1978)
- Euthria javanica Fraussen & Dekker, 2002
- †Euthria lanotensis Lozouet, 1999
- Euthria galopimi
- Euthria lockleyi (Dall, 1918)
- Euthria marianae Rolán, Monteiro & Fraussen, 2003
- †Euthria mellianensis Lozouet, 2021
- †Euthria minor Bellardi, 1872
- Euthria noligomesi Rolan & Monteiro, 2007
- †Euthria pangoides (Beu, 1973)
- †Euthria perpiniana Fontannes, 1879
- Euthria philpoppei Fraussen, 2002
- Euthria placibilis Fraussen, Monteiro & Swinnen, 2012
- †Euthria plioelongata Sacco, 1890
- Euthria poppei Fraussen, 1999
- Euthria pulicaria Dautzenberg & Fisher, 1906
- †Euthria puschi Andrzejowski, 1830
- Euthria rolani Cosel, 1982
- Euthria scepta Fraussen & Hadorn, 2003
- Euthria solifer Fraussen & Hadorn, 2003
- Euthria somalica (Parth, 1999)
- Euthria soniae Rolán, Monteiro & Fraussen, 2003
- Euthria taeniopsoides Fraussen & Afonso, 2008
- †Euthria tarusatensis Lozouet, 2021
- Euthria vandae Rolan & Monteiro, 2007
- †Euthria viciani Kovács, 2018
- Euthria vokesi Fraussen & Garcia, 2008
- Euthria walleri (Ladd, 1976)
- Species brought into synonymy:
- Euthria aracanense [sic] : synonym of Euthria aracanensis Angas, 1873
- Euthria aucklandica E.A. Smith, 1902: synonym of Xymene aucklandicus (E.A. Smith, 1902)
- Euthria candidata Mabille & Rochebrune: synonym of Pareuthria atrata (E. A. Smith, 1881)
- Euthria cecilea Fraussen & Rolán, 2003: synonym of Euthria marianae Rolán, Monteiro & Fraussen, 2003
- Euthria chlorotica (Martens, 1878): synonym of Pareuthria chlorotica (Martens, 1878)
- Euthria cingulata Reeve L.A., 1847: synonym of Japeuthria cingulata (Reeve, 1846)
- Euthria clathratula Thiele, 1925: synonym of Meteuthria clathratula (Thiele, 1925)
- Euthria eburnea G.B. Sowerby III, 1900 : synonym of Peristernia forskalii leucothea Melvill, 1891
- Euthria fallax Thiele, 1925: synonym of Meteuthria fallax (Thiele, 1925)
- Euthria filmerae G.B. Sowerby III, 1900: synonym of Latirus filmerae (G.B. Sowerby III, 1900)
- Euthria formosa Thiele, 1925: synonym of Meteuthria formosa (Thiele, 1925)
- Euthria fuscata Bruguiere: synonym of Pareuthria fuscata
- Euthria fuscotincta G.B. Sowerby III, 1886: synonym of Peristernia fuscotincta (G.B. Sowerby III, 1886)
- Euthria josepedroi Rolan & Monteiro, 2007: synonym of Euthria vandae Rolán & Monteiro, 2007
- Euthria lacertina Gould, 1860: synonym of Afrocominella capensis capensis (Dunker in Philippi, 1844)
- Euthria multistriata Turton, 1932: synonym of Afrocominella capensis simoniana (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
- Euthria ordinaria Turton, 1932: synonym of Peristernia fuscotincta (G.B. Sowerby III, 1886)
- Euthria ponsonbyi G.B. Sowerby, 1889: synonym of Buccinulum ponsonbyi (G.B. Sowerby III, 1889)
- Euthria pura Martens, 1903: synonym of Zemitrella pura (Martens, 1903)
- Euthria queketti E.A. Smith, 1901: synonym of Buccinulum queketti (E.A. Smith, 1901)
- Euthria rikae Fraussen, 2003: synonym of Fusolatirus rikae (Fraussen, 2003)
- Euthria rosea Hombron & Jacquinot, 1853: synonym of Pareuthria powelli
- Euthria saharica Locard, 1897: synonym of Euthriostoma saharicum (Locard, 1897)
- Euthria simoniana Petit, 1852: synonym of Afrocominella capensis simoniana (Petit de la Saussaye, 1852)
- Euthria suduirauti Fraussen, 2003: synonym of Fusolatirus suduirauti (Fraussen, 2003)
- Euthria turtoni Bartsch, 1915: synonym of Afrocominella turtoni (Bartsch, 1915)
References
- Fraussen K. & Swinnen F. (2016). A review of the genus Euthria Gray, 1839 (Gastropoda: Buccinidae) from the Cape Verde archipelago. Xenophora Taxonomy. 11: 9-31.
- Fraussen K. & Stahlschmidt P. (2017). Comparing the living eastern Atlantic Euthria Gray, 1839 (Gastropoda: Buccinoidea), with brief remarks on the paleontological and biogeographical context. Gloria Maris 55/3: 70-82.
- Bałuk W. (1995). Middle Miocene (Badenian) gastropods from Korytnica, Poland; Part II. Acta Geologica Polonica 45/3-4: 153-255.
- Brunetti M. M. & Della Bella G. (2016). Revisioni di alcuni generi della famiglia Buccinidae Rafinesque, 1815 nel Plio-Pleistocene del Bacino Mediterraneo, con descrizione di tre nuove specie. Bollettino Malacologico 52: 3-37.
- Landau B. M., Harzhauser M., Ä°slamoÄŸlu Y. & Silva C. M. (2013). Systematics and palaeobiogeography of the gastropods of the middle Miocene (Serravallian) Karaman Basin, Turkey. Cainozoic Research 11-13: 584 pp.
- Kovács Z. (2018). New records of the genus Euthria (Mollusca, Buccinidae) in the Miocene Paratethys. Földtani Közlöny 148/2: 179-182. doi: 10.23928/foldt.kozl.2018.148.2.179
Notes and References
- Kantor, Yuri I.. Fedosov, Alexander E.. Kosyan, Alisa R.. Puillandre, Nicolas. Sorokin, Pavel A.. Kano, Yasunori. Clark, Roger. Bouchet, Philippe. Molecular phylogeny and revised classification of the Buccinoidea (Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 2022. 194. 3. 789–857. 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab031.
- Fraussen, Koen & Stahlschmidt, Peter. (2020). Euthria erythraea sp. nov. (Gastropoda: Buccinidae), the first record for the genus from the Red Sea. Archiv für Molluskenkunde International Journal of Malacology. 149. 1-4. 10.1127/arch.moll/149/2020/1.
- Web site: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-genus-Euthria-(Gastropoda,-Tudiclidae)-in-the-a-Landau-Silva/74fbf3b8477bb50499719e86983807b22d9a27f1 . 2026-02-24 . www.semanticscholar.org.
- Fraussen, Koen & Swinnen, Frank & Fiadeiro, Ramiro. (2025). The Cape Verde Islands and their Euthria radiation (Gastropoda: Tudiclidae), with description of 4 new species. Gloria Maris 64(1): 16-22.. 64. 16-22.
