Thais, sometimes known by the common names dog winkles or rock shells, is a genus of medium to large predatory sea snails with an operculum, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Muricidae, the rock shells.
Species within the genus Thais include:
Species also mentioned in ITIS, the Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database (OBIS) and in the Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca (Malacolog)
Thais clavigera Köster, 1858
Thais chocolata (Duclos, 1832) - Locate
Thais delessertiana (D'Orbigny, 1841)
Thais lamellosa
Thais orbita (Gmelin, 1791) - White rock shell
Thais rustica (Lamarck, 1822) Rustic rocksnail
Thais savignyi (Deshayes, 1844)
Thais trinitatensis (Guppy, 1869)
Thais undata Lamarck
Thais woodwardi (Roxo)
Species brought into synonymy
Thais aperta Blainville, 1832: synonym of Drupa aperta (Blainville, 1832)
Thais bronni (Dunker, 1860): synonym of Reishia bronni (Dunker, 1860)
Thais carinifera: synonym of Thais lacera (Born, 1778)
Thais emarginata (Deshayes, 1839): synonym of Nucella emarginata (Deshayes, 1839)
Thais gemmulata: synonym of Thais (Mancinella) alouina (Röding, 1798)
Thais grandis (Sowerby, 1835): synonym of Neorapana grandis (Sowerby I, 1835)
Thais haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767)
Thais hippocastanum (Linnaeus, 1758): synonym of Thais (Thalessa) virgata (Dillwyn, 1817)
Thais lapillus Linnaeus, 1758 - the dog whelk: synonym of Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Thais muricata (Broderip, 1832): synonym of Neorapana muricata (Broderip, 1832)
Thais pica Blainville: synonym of Thais (Thalessa) tuberosa (Röding, 1798)
Thais stellata Röding, 1798: synonym of Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767)
Thais tuberculata (Sowerby, 1835): synonym of Neorapana tuberculata (Sowerby I, 1835)
