Doxander

Doxander is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Strombidae, the true conchs.^[1]

Doxander
Five views of a shell of Doxander vittatus
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Littorinimorpha
Superfamily:	Stromboidea
Family:	Strombidae
Genus:	Doxander Wenz, 1940
Type species
Strombus vittatus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonyms[1]
Strombus (Doxander) Wenz, 1940

The name Doxander was originally given by Iredale to this genus in 1931.^[2] But since he did not provide a description, the name Doxander, Iredale, 1931 is no longer available under Art. 13.1 of the ICZN Code.

Species

Species within the genus Doxander include:

• Doxander campbelli (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1834)
• Doxander entropi (Man in 't Veld & Visser, 1993)
• Doxander japonicus (Reeve, 1851)
• Doxander operosus (Röding, 1798)
• Doxander queenslandicus S. J. Maxwell, 2022
• Doxander vittatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Species brought into synonymy

• Doxander apicatus (Man in't Veld, L.A. & G.J. Visser, 1993): synonym of Doxander operosus (Röding, 1798)