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Ianthinae
Ianthina I*an"thi*na, n.; pl. L. Ianthin[ae], E. Ianthinas. [NL., fr. L. ianthinus violet-blue, Gr. ?; ? violet + ? flower.] (Zo["o]l.) Any gastropod of the genus Ianthina, of which various species are found living in mid ocean; -- called also purple shell, and violet snail. [Written also janthina.] Note: It floats at the surface by means of a raft, which it constructs by forming and uniting together air bubbles of hardened mucus. The Tyrian purple of the ancients was obtained in part from mollusks of this genus.

Meaning of Thinae from wikipedia

- Thinae (Gr****: Θῖναι, or Σῖναι), or Thina (Θῖνα), was a capital city of the Sinae (modern China), who carried on there a large commerce in silk and woollen...
- Mzimvubu River of South Africa Thîna (Θῖνα), an ancient Gr**** name of China Thinae (Θῖναι) or Thina, an ancient Gr**** name for one of the capital cities of...
- 1st-century Periplus notes how a country called This, with a great city called Thinae (comparable to Sinae in Ptolemy's Geography), produced silk and exported...
- extant writer to employ the name in this form; hence also the Sinae and Thinae of Ptolemy. Some denied that Ptolemy's Sinae really represented the Chinese...
- catch the monsoon winds. The Periplus also mentions a great inland city, Thinae (or Sinae), in a country called This that perhaps stretched as far as the...
- the Kingdom of Funan and may have been its capital. It may have been the Thinae, or Sinae Metropolis located by Claudius Ptolemy as the ****hest known city...