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Bouchetia
Shell of Bouchetia wareni (holotype at MNHN, Paris)
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Mollusca
Class:	Gastropoda
(unranked):	clade Caenogastropoda clade Hypsogastropoda clade Neogastropoda
Superfamily:	Muricoidea
Family:	Muricidae
Subfamily:	Muricinae
Genus:	Bouchetia Houart & Héros, 2008
Type species
Poirieria (Paziella) vaubanensis Houart, 1986
Synonyms
Paziella (Bouchetia) Houart & Héros, 2008

Bouchetia is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the murex snails or rock snails.

This genus was named after the malacologist Philippe Bouchet. It has become a synonym of Paziella (Bouchetia) Houart & Héros, 2008, itself an alternate representation of Paziella Jousseaume, 1880

Species

Species within the genus Bouchetia included :

• Bouchetia hystricina (Dall, 1889): s
• Bouchetia vaubanensis (Houart, 1986):
• Bouchetia wareni Houart & Héros, 2015

References

1. Bouchet, P. (2011). Paziella Jousseaume, 1880. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415784 on 2011-04-04
2. Bouchetia hystricina (Dall, 1889). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.
3. Bouchetia vaubanensis (Houart, 1986). Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 25 April 2010.

• Houart R. & Héros V. (2008) Muricidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Fiji and Tonga. In: V. Héros, R.H. Cowie & P. Bouchet (eds), Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle 196: 437-480. page(s): 450

External links

• Houart R. & Héros V. (2015). New species of Muricidae Rafinesque, 1815 (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Western Indian Ocean. Zoosystema. 37(3): 481-503

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