Ethminolia

Ethminolia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Umboniinae of the family Trochidae, the top snails.^[2]

Ethminolia
shells of Ethminolia vitiliginea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Order:	Trochida
Superfamily:	Trochoidea
Family:	Trochidae
Genus:	Ethminolia Iredale, 1924 [1]
Type species
Ethminolia probabilis Iredale, 1924

Distribution

This marine genus occurs in the Red Sea, Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea and off Australia (New South Wales, South Australia, Victoria, Western Australia) and Tasmania.

Species

Species within the genus Ethminolia include:

• Ethminolia akuana Raines, 2007^[3]
• Ethminolia degregorii (Caramagna, 1888)
• Ethminolia doriae (Caramagna, 1888)^[4]
• Ethminolia durbanensis (Kilburn, 1977)
• Ethminolia elveri Cotton & Godfrey, 1938^[5]
• Ethminolia eudeli (Deshayes, 1863)
• Ethminolia glaphyrella (Melvill & Standen, 1895)
• Ethminolia gravieri (Lamy, 1909)
• Ethminolia hemprichii Issel, 1869^[6]
• Ethminolia hornungi (Bisacchi, 1931)^[7]
• Ethminolia impressa (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1869)
• Ethminolia iridifulgens (Melvill, 1910)^[8]
• Ethminolia nektonica (Okutani, 1961)^[9]
• Ethminolia ornatissima (Schepman, 1908)
• Ethminolia probabilis Iredale, 1924^[10]
• Ethminolia sculpta (G.B. Sowerby, 1897)
• Ethminolia stearnsii (Pilsbry, 1895):^[11] synonym of Sericominolia stearnsii (Pilsbry, 1895)
• Ethminolia vitiliginea (Menke, 1843)^[12]
• † Ethminolia wareni Helwerda, Wesselingh & S. T. Williams, 2014

Species brought into synonymy

• Ethminolia bysma Herbert, 1992: synonym of Ethalia bysma Herbert, 1992
• Ethminolia cincta Cotton & Godfrey, 1938: synonym of Spectamen cinctum (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938) (original combination)
• Ethminolia mayi Kershaw, 1955: synonym of Ethminolia probabilis Iredale, 1924
• Ethminolia tasmanica Macpherson, J.H. & Gabriel, C.J. 1962: synonym of Ethminolia vitiliginea (Menke, 1843)