WoRMS taxon details
Cancellaria africana Petit, 1970
464691 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:464691)
accepted
Species
Cancellaria imbricata R. B. Watson, 1882 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of...)
Invalid: junior homonym of Cancellaria imbricata M. Hörnes, 1856; C. africana is a replacement name
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Petit R.E. (1970). Notes on Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)— II. <em>Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology.</em> 8(2): 83-88, pl. 1.
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MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cancellaria africana Petit, 1970. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464691 on 2025-05-04
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Nomenclature
original description
Petit R.E. (1970). Notes on Cancellariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda)— II. <em>Tulane Studies in Geology and Paleontology.</em> 8(2): 83-88, pl. 1.
page(s): 86 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Cancellaria imbricata R. B. Watson, 1882) Watson, R. B. (1879-1883). Mollusca of H.M.S. 'Challenger' Expedition. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 14: 506-529, 586-605, 692-716 [1879]; 15: 87-126, 217-230 [1880], 245-274, 388-412, 413-455, 457-475 [1881]; 16: 247-254, 324-343, 358-372, 373-392 [1882], 594-611 [1883]; 17: 26-40, 112-130, 284-293, 319-340, 341-346 [1883]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/99383
page(s): 325 [details]
basis of record Verhecken, A. (2007). Revision of the Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea) of the eastern Atlantic (40°N-40°S) and the Mediterranean. Zoosystema. 29(2): 281-364., available online at http://web.archive.org/web/20120305202229/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/10531_z07n2a2.pdf [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 86 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Cancellaria imbricata R. B. Watson, 1882) Watson, R. B. (1879-1883). Mollusca of H.M.S. 'Challenger' Expedition. <em>Journal of the Linnean Society of London.</em> 14: 506-529, 586-605, 692-716 [1879]; 15: 87-126, 217-230 [1880], 245-274, 388-412, 413-455, 457-475 [1881]; 16: 247-254, 324-343, 358-372, 373-392 [1882], 594-611 [1883]; 17: 26-40, 112-130, 284-293, 319-340, 341-346 [1883]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/99383
page(s): 325 [details]
basis of record Verhecken, A. (2007). Revision of the Cancellariidae (Mollusca, Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea) of the eastern Atlantic (40°N-40°S) and the Mediterranean. Zoosystema. 29(2): 281-364., available online at http://web.archive.org/web/20120305202229/http://www.mnhn.fr/museum/front/medias/publication/10531_z07n2a2.pdf [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Hemmen, J. (2007). <i>Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae</i>. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, <i>Recent Cancellariidae</i> by Jens Hemmen, 2007. <i>Conchologia Ingrata</i> 9: 1-8]. [details]
additional source Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). <i>Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods</i>. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
page(s): 196. [details]
additional source Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). <i>Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods</i>. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
page(s): 196. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
