Jaton

Jaton is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Ocenebrinae of the family Muricidae, and murex snails or rock snails.^[1]

Jaton
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Ocenebrinae
Genus:	Jaton Pusch, 1837
Type species
Murex decussatus Gmelin, 1791
Synonyms[1]
Jatova Jousseaume, 1880 Murex (Jaton) Pusch, 1837 (superseded combination)

Species

Species within the genus Jaton include:

• Jaton decussatus (Gmelin, 1791)^[2]
• † Jaton dufrenoyi (Grateloup, 1845)
• Jaton flavidus (Jousseaume, 1874)^[3]
• Jaton hemitripterus (Lamarck, 1816)^[4]
• Jaton sinespina Vermeij & Houart, 1996^[5]
• † Jaton sowerbyi (Michelotti, 1841)

Species brought into synonymy

• Jaton angolensis Ryan, 1984:^[6] synonym of Jaton sinespina Vermeij & Houart, 1996
• Jaton rikae Petuch & Berschauer, 2019: synonym of Jaton hemitripterus (Lamarck, 1816)
• Jaton westsahariensis Franchi, 2007: synonym of Jaton hemitripterus (Lamarck, 1816)