Danilia
Danilia boucheti
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
Subclass:	Vetigastropoda
Family:	Chilodontaidae
Genus:	Danilia Brusina, 1865[1]
Type species
Monodonta limbata Philippi, 1844
Species
See text
Synonyms
Craspedotus Philippi, 1847 (invalid: junior homonym of Craspedotus Schoenherr, 1844 [Coleoptera]) Heliciella O.G. Costa, 1861 (invalid: declared nomen oblitum by Herbert (2012)) Olivia Cantraine, 1835 (invalid: junior homonym of Olivia Bertolini, 1810 [?Porifera]) Otavia Gray, 1847 (non Risso, 1826)

Danilia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs of the family Chilodontaidae.^[2]

Previously it was considered a subgenus of Euchelus Philippi, 1847. This genus was named after the malacologist Francesco Danilo (1813- ?)

Species

Species within the genus Danilia include:

• Danilia affinis Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896
• Danilia angulosa Vilvens & Heros, 2005
• Danilia boucheti Herbert, 2012
• Danilia discordata Vilvens & Heros, 2005
• Danilia eucheliformis (Nomura & Hatai, 1940)
• Danilia galeata Vilvens & Heros, 2005
• Danilia insperata Beu & Climo, 1974
• Danilia kuroshio Okutani, 1968
• † Danilia otaviana (Cantraine, 1835)
• Danilia stratmanni Poppe, Tagaro & Dekker, 2006
• Danilia telebathia Hedley, 1911
• Danilia textilis Herbert, 2012
• Danilia tinei (Calcara, 1839)
• Danilia weberi Schepman, 1908

Species brought into synonymy

• Danilia costellata (Costa, 1861): synonym of Danilia tinei (Calcara, 1839)

References

• Vilvens C. & Héros V. 2005. New species and new records of Danilia (Gastropoda: Chilodontidae) from the Western Pacific. Novapex 6(3) : 53-64

Further reading

• NZ Mollusca
• Powell A. W. B., New Zealand Mollusca, William Collins Publishers Ltd, Auckland, New Zealand 1979 ISBN 0-00-216906-1
• Herbert D.G. (2012) A revision of the Chilodontidae (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Seguenzioidea) of southern Africa and the south-western Indian Ocean. African Invertebrates, 53(2): 381–502