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

Xenophora mediterranea Tiberi, 1863

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Xenophora*	Fischer von Waldheim, 1807	accepted genus name

Literature

original description	Tiberi, N. (1863). Description d'une espèce nouvelle du genre Xenophora. Journal de Conchyliologie. 11: 155-158, pl. 6.
additional source	Kreipl K. & Alf A. (1999). Recent Xenophoridae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim > Germany. 148pp.
additional source	Adam, W. & Knudsen, J. (1955). Note sur quelques espèces de mollusques marins nouveaux ou peu connus de l'Afrique occidentale. Bulletin de l'Institut Royal des Sciences Naturelles de Belgique. 31 (61): 1-25.
status 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.
status source	Mariottini, P., Smriglio, C. & Bombi, P. (2007). Revision of the Mediterranean carrier shell: The Xenophora mediterranea complex (Mollusca, Gastropoda: Xenophoridae). Aldrovandia. 3: 3-18.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Xenophora mediterranea Tiberi, 1863. 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:224249