Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Stromboidea > Family Xenophoridae

Xenophora Fischer von Waldheim, 1807

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Children

Xenophora mediterranea Tiberi, 1863

Literature

original description	Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1807). Museum Demidoff, ou, Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l'art: données à l'Université Impériale de Moscou par son excellence Monsieur Paul de Demidoff. Tome III. Végétaux et Animaux. Moscow: Imprimerie de Université Impériale de Moscou. 300 pp, 6 pls.
basis of record	Kreipl K. & Alf A. (1999). Recent Xenophoridae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim > Germany. 148pp.
additional source	Lyman, F. B. (1936). My discovery and observation of the living Xenophora in Florida waters. The Nautilus. 49(4): 141-142.
additional source	Manganelli G., Spadini V. & Cianfanelli S. (2004 ["2003"]). The xenophorid gastropods of the Mediterranean Pliocene: the record of the Siena Basin. Bollettino della Società Paleontologica Italiana. 43(3): 409-451.
additional source	Ponder, W. F. (1983). A revision of the Recent Xenophoridae of the World and of the Australian fossil species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Australian Museum Memoir. 17: 1-126.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Xenophora Fischer von Waldheim, 1807. 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:138664