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Neptunea contraria (Linnaeus, 1771) 
AphiaID: 138922

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Buccinidae (Family) > Neptunea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Neptunea Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa
  Fusus perversus Kiener, 1840
Fusus sinistrorsus Deshayes, 1832
Murex contrarius Linnaeus, 1771
Sources  basis of record: Bouchet P. & Warén A. (1985). Revision of the Northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bollettino Malacologico Suppl. 1: 121-296 [details]

additional source: Fraussen K. (2010). Buccinidae checklist. Pers. Com. [details]

additional source: de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1771). Mantissa Plantarum. Holmiae, 1-588 [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
Note  Synonymy: Treated as a synonym of Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758) in howson & Picton (1997). [details]
Images 
Neptunea contraria
Neptunea contraria
added on 2012-07-18 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Neptunea contraria
Neptunea contraria
added on 2012-07-18 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138922
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2005-04-16 10:28:02Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2008-08-14 13:08:19Z  checked  Gofas, Serge
2010-07-19 15:09:49Z  checked  Fraussen, Koen
  
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  Citation: Fraussen, K.; Gofas, S. (2013). Neptunea contraria (Linnaeus, 1771). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138922 on 2013-05-22
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