Stromboidea

• Strombidae
  • Doxander

Original Description of Doxander by Wenz, 1940:

• "Gehäuse groß bis sehr groß, schlank, spindelförmig; Gewinde hoch; Umgänge gewölbt, mit schmalem, glattem Streifen unter der Naht und axialen Rippen; Endwindung fast glatt oder mit mehr oder weniger deutlichen axialen Rippen, auf der unteren Hälfte mit Spiralrillen."

Type species is Strombus vittatus Linnaeus, 1758.

The species of Doxander are:

• Doxander campbellii (Griffith & Pidgeon, 1833)
• Doxander entropi (Man in ’t Veld & Visser, 1993)
• Doxander japonicus (Reeve, 1851)
• Doxander operosus (Röding, 1798)
• Doxander vittatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Known Doxander hybrids:

• Doxander vittatus x campbellii
• Doxander campbellii x Laevistrombus canarium

recent Doxander sp.

• upper row: D. campbellii, D. entropi
• middle row: D. japonicus, D. operosus
• lower row: D. vittatus

Remark:

• Iredale, 1931 does not give any description of Doxander, resulting in Doxander Iredale, 1931 as nomen nudum. Wenz, 1940 gave the first description of the genus Doxander. (Reference: Kronenberg & Dharma, 2005)

History and Synonymy

1931

Iredale, 1931, p. 212:

• "Captain Comtesse then produced another species of Stromb which he had separated from campbelli, also found in the Harbour, though previously known only from the North Coast. This proved to be vittatus, and for this well-known group I provide the name Doxander, vittatus being named as type."

References

• Iredale, T. (1931). Australian molluscan notes, No. 1. Records of the Australian Museum. 18 (4): 201-235, pl. 22-25, Fulltext
• Kronenberg, G.C. & Wieneke, U. 2020. Röding’s Stromboidea (Caenogastropoda): the remains of the Bolten collection in the Museum der Natur Gotha (Germany), a critical review of Röding’s taxa, and notes on the Schmidt catalogue. Basteria 84 (1-3): 85-126.