African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Merica melanostoma (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)

AfReMaS taxon details

Merica melanostoma (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849)

AphiaID

217192 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217192)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Merica H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Orig. name

Cancellaria melanostoma G. B. Sowerby II, 1849

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1849). Monograph of the genus Cancellaria. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 2 (9): 439–461, pls 92–96. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11075546
page(s): 447, pl. 95 fig. 78 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Merica melanostoma (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849). Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217192 on 2024-04-19

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2024). African Register of Marine Species. Merica melanostoma (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217192 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1998-05-27 16:17:47Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-07-18 15:57:33Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-03-10 09:45:17Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2010-11-13 16:20:14Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-06-21 20:29:29Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1849). Monograph of the genus Cancellaria. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells. Vol. 2 (9): 439–461, pls 92–96. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11075546
page(s): 447, pl. 95 fig. 78 [details]

basis of record Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Hemmen, J. (2007). Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, Recent Cancellariidae by Jens Hemmen, 2007. Conchologia Ingrata 9: 1-8]. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)