Sydaphera

Sydaphera is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Cancellariidae, the nutmeg snails.^[1]

Sydaphera
Apertural view of shell of Sydaphera spengleriana (Deshayes, 1830)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Caenogastropoda
Order:	Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Volutoidea
Family:	Cancellariidae
Genus:	Sydaphera Iredale, 1929
Type species
Sydaphera renovata Iredale, 1929

Species

Species within the genus Sydaphera include:

• Sydaphera anxifer (Iredale, 1925)^[2]
• Sydaphera australis (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832)^[3]
• Sydaphera christiana Verhecken, 2008^[4]
• Sydaphera delicosa Laseron, 1955^[5]
• Sydaphera fulva (Lee & Lan, 2002)^[6]
• Sydaphera granosa (G.B. Sowerby I, 1832b)^[7]
• Sydaphera lactea (Deshayes, 1830) :^[8]
• Sydaphera obnixa (Iredale, 1936)^[9]
• Sydaphera panamuna (Garrard, 1975) :^[10]
• Sydaphera spengleriana (Deshayes, 1830)^[11]
• Sydaphera tasmanica (Tenison-Woods, 1876)^[12]

Synonyms

• Sydaphera gigantea (Lee & Lan, 2002):^[13] synonym of Merica (Sydaphera) gigantea (Y.-C. Lee & T. C. Lan, 2002) represented as Merica gigantea (Y.-C. Lee & T. C. Lan, 2002)
• Sydaphera purpuriformis (Kiener, 1841):^[14] synonym of Merica purpuriformis (Kiener, 1841)
• Sydaphera undulata (G.B. Sowerby II, 1849):^[15] accepted as Merica (Sydaphera) undulata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849) represented as Merica undulata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)