Charonia

Taxonavigation[edit]

Taxonavigation: Tonnoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Caenogastropoda Ordo: Littorinimorpha Superfamilia: Tonnoidea

Charonia Gistl, 1847 [placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology with Name No. 1846, by China 1969: 128]

Triton Montfort, 1810 [placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology with Name No. 1951, by China (1969: 129)] [junior homonym]
Tritonalia Fleming, 1828 [placed on the Official Index of Rejected and Invalid Generic Names in Zoology with Name No. 1950, by China (1969: 129), suppressed, by China (1969: 128), for the purposes of the Law of Priority but not for those of the Law of Homonymy]

Beu, A.G. 1970. The Mollusca of the genus Charonia (family Cymatiidae). Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, biological sciences, 11(16): 205–223, plates 1-5. Online. Reference page.
Bradley, J.C.; Palmer, K.V.W. 1963: The cases of Purpura and Ceratostoma. Z.N.(S.) 1088. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 20: 251–253, plus comment by Hall, C.A. on p. 254. BHL BioStor
China, W.E. 1969: Opinion 886. Purpura Bruguière and Muricanthus Swainson (Gastropoda): designations of type-species under the plenary powers with grant of precedence to Thaididae over Purpuridae. Bulletin of zoological nomenclature, 26: 128–132. BHL BioStor
Fleming, J. 1828: History of British animals. Edinburgh: Bell & Bradfute. BHL [see. p. 356 and corrigenda]
Montfort 1810: Conch. Syst., 2: 586. [not seen]