Mipus

Mipus is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the subfamily Coralliophilinae of the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.^[2]

Mipus
Two shells of Mipus crebrilamellosus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Coralliophilinae
Genus:	Mipus de Gregorio, 1885[1]
Type species
Trophon gyratus Hinds, R.B., 1844
Species
See text

Species

Species within the genus Mipus include:

• Mipus alis Oliverio, 2008^[3]
• Mipus arbutum (Woolacott, 1954)
• Mipus basicostatus Kosuge, 1988
• Mipus boucheti Oliverio, 2008^[4]
• Mipus brinkae Kosuge, 1992
• Mipus coriolisi Kosuge & Oliverio, 2004^[5]
• Mipus crebrilamellosus (G.B. Sowerby III, 1913)^[6]
• Mipus eugeniae (Bernardi, 1853)
• Mipus fusiformis (Martens, 1902)
• Mipus gyratus (Hinds, R.B., 1844)^[7]
• Mipus intermedius Kosuge, 1985
• Mipus isosceles (Barnard, 1959)
• Mipus mamimarumai (Kosuge, 1981)
• Mipus matsumotoi Kosuge, 1985
• Mipus miyukiae Kosuge, 1985
• Mipus nodosus (A. Adams, 1854) ^[8]
• Mipus rosaceus (E.A. Smith, 1903)
• Mipus sugitanii Kosuge, 1985
• Mipus tomlini (van Regteren Altena, 1950)
• Mipus tonganus Oliverio, 2008^[9]
• Mipus tortuosus (Azuma, 1961)
• Mipus vicdani (Kosuge, 1980)

Species brought into synonymy

• Mipus hotei Kosuge, 1985: synonym of Coralliophila hotei (Kosuge, 1985)
• Mipus ovoideus Kosuge, 1985: synonym of Coralliophila ovoidea (Kosuge, 1985)