Genus Coralliophila H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853

Coralliophila H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853: 135 . Coralliobia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853: 138 . Type species (by monotypy): Concholepas (Coralliobia) fimbriata A. Adams, 1854; Recent, Indo-West Pacific.

Galeropsis Hupé, 1860: 125 (type species by monotypy: G. lavenayanus Hupé, 1860; Lower Miocene, France).

Pseudomurex Monterosato, 1872: 15 (type species by original designation: Murex meyendorffii Calcara, 1845; Recent, Northeastern Atlantic).

Quoyula Iredale, 1912: 221 (type species by original designation: Purpura monodonta Blainville, 1832; Recent, Indo-Pacific).

Rhombothais Woolacot, 1954: 38 (type species by original designation: Rhombothais arbutum Woolacot, 1954 Recent, Australia).

Reliquiaecava Massin, 1987: 81 (type species by original designation: Leptoconchus robillardi Liénard, 1870 . Recent, Indo-Pacific).

TYPE SPECIES. — Fusus neritoideus Lamarck, 1816 (= Purpura violacea Kiener, 1836), by subsequent designation (Iredale 1912).

REMARKS

The genus Coralliophila is here used in a wide sense ( Coralliophila s.l.), including species traditionally ascribed to it (Kosuge & Suzuki 1985; Tsuchiya 2000). However, I warn here that there is strong molecular evidence that Coralliophila as traditionally conceived is clearly polyphyletic (Oliverio & Mariottini 2001; Oliverio et al. 2002; Oliverio et al. 2009). Th erefore, the concept of the genus and also the list of synonymies for Coralliophila are destined to be deeply revised in a phylogenetic framework.