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Hesperisternia
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Species
Ribbed Cantharus
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumMollusca
- ClassGastropoda
- OrderNeogastropoda
- FamilyPisaniidae
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 328
- With media
- 1
- Family
- Pisaniidae
- Collections
- UF, PRI
- Recorded in
- United States
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Hesperisternia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Pisaniidae.
==Species== Species within the genus Hesperisternia include: Hesperisternia elegans (Dall, 1908) Hesperisternia grandana (Abbott, 1986) Hesperisternia harasewychi (Petuch, 1987) Hesperisternia jugosa (C. B. Adams, 1852) Hesperisternia karinae (Usticke, 1959) Hesperisternia multangulus (Philippi, 1848) Hesperisternia panamica (Hertlein & Strong, 1951) Hesperisternia shaskyi (Berry, 1959) Hesperisternia sulzyckii Petuch & R. F. Myers, 2014 Hesperisternia vibex (Broderip, 1833) † Hesperisternia waltonia J. Gardner, 1944 Species brought into synonymy: Hesperisternia itzamnai Watters, 2009: synonym of Engina itzamnai (Watters, 2009) (original combination) Hesperisternia lauta (Reeve, 1846): synonym of Engina lauta (Reeve, 1846)
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