Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Buccinoidea > Family Fasciolariidae > Subfamily Fasciolariinae

Latirus Montfort, 1810

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lathyrus*	[sic]	orthographic variant

Children

Latirus rugosissimus (Locard, 1897)

Literature

original description	Montfort P. [Denys de]. (1808-1810). Conchyliologie systématique et classification méthodique des coquilles. Paris: Schoell. Vol. 1: pp. lxxxvii + 409 [1808]. Vol. 2: pp. 676 + 16 [1810 (before 28 May)].
basis of record	Snyder M.A. (2003). Catalogue of the marine gastropod family Fasciolariidae. Academy of Natural Sciences. of Philadelphia, Special Publication. 21iii + 1–431.
additional source	Bullock, R. C. (1974). A contribution to the systematics of some West Indian Latirus (Gastropoda: Fasciolariidae). The Nautilus. 88(3): 69-79, figs. 1-25.
additional source	Couto D., Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Simone L.R.L. & Giribet G. (2016). A multilocus molecular phylogeny of Fasciolariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 309-322.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Latirus Montfort, 1810. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138003