Benimakia

Benimakia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Fasciolariidae, the spindle snails, the tulip snails and their allies.^[1]

Benimakia
Shell of Benimakia mariei (lectotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Buccinoidea
Family:	Fasciolariidae
Genus:	Benimakia Habe, 1958
Type species
Turbinella rhodostoma, Dunker, 1860

Species

Species within the genus Benimakia include:

• Benimakia cloveri Snyder & Vermeij, 2008^[2]
• Benimakia delicata Vermeij & Snyder, 2003^[3]
• Benimakia fastigium (Reeve, 1847)
• Benimakia flavida (A. Adams, 1855)
• Benimakia lanceolata (Reeve, 1847)^[4]
• Benimakia mariei (Crosse, 1869)
• Benimakia mirabilis Bozzetti, 2018
• Benimakia nux Bouchet & Snyder, 2013
• Benimakia rhodostoma (Dunker, 1860) ^[5]
• Benimakia rosadoi (Bozzetti, 2002)
• Benimakia rubens (Lamarck, 1822)
• Benimakia rubus Bouchet & Snyder, 2013
• Benimakia sowerbyi (Melvill, 1907)
• Benimakia vermeiji Bouchet & Snyder, 2013

Species brought into synonymy

• Benimakia marquesana (Adams, 1855):^[6] synonym of Peristernia marquesana (A. Adams, 1855)
• Benimakia nodata (Gmelin, 1791):^[7] synonym of Nodolatirus nodatus (Gmelin, 1791)
• Benimakia ogum (Petuch, 1979): synonym of Pustulatirus ogum (Petuch, 1979)
• Benimakia robillardi (Tapparone-Canefri, 1879):^[8] synonym of Nodolatirus robillardi (Tapparone Canefri, 1879)