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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea despecta (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 138923

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorGastropoda (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCaenogastropoda (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeogastropoda (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBuccinoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBuccinidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea despecta (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea Röding, 1798
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex despectus Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorChrysodomus despectus (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorFusus carinatus (Pennant, 1777)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorFusus carinatus ventricosus Möller, 1842
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex carinatus Pennant, 1777 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex despectus Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex duplicatus Donovan, 1800
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMurex subantiquatus Maton & Rackett, 1807 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea antiqua var. bicarinata Kobelt, 1878
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea antiqua var. elongata Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1912
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea decemcostata clenchi A. H. Clarke, 1956 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea despecta var. ecarinata Kobelt, 1887
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea despecta var. fasciata Friele, 1882
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea fasciata Friele, 1882 (synonym)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorTritonium fornicatum Fabricius O., 1780 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record Fraussen K. & Terryn Y. (2007). The family Buccinidae. Genus Neptunea. In: A Conchological Iconography [Directed by Guido T. Poppe & Klaus Groh]. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 159 pp., 154 pls.  [details]

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Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorgekielde noordhoren  [details]
French Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorneptunée commune du Nord  [details]
German Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorkantige Spindelschnecke  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorneptunsnegl  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorneptunsnigel  [details]
Direct child
taxa (3)
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Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea despecta var. ecarinata Kobelt, 1887 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea despecta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea despecta var. fasciata Friele, 1882 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea despecta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Variety Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea despecta var. striata Kobelt, 1881 accepted as Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorNeptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Canada
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCanadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Arctic part] [details]
Gulf of Saint Lawrence
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSt. Lawrence Estuary [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEuropean waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Maine [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [details]
Sweden
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSwedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (104 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo CLEMAM 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Dyntaxa 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo PESI 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo ITIS
Notes 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorDistribution Range: 72.88°N to 40.19°N; 105°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Baffin Island, Hudson Bay, Newfoundland, Quebec; USA: Massachusetts [details]

Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorHabitat infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138923
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2010-07-19 15:09:49Z  checked  Fraussen, Koen
  
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  Citation: Fraussen, K.; Gofas, S. (2010). Neptunea despecta. In: MolluscaBase (2017). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138923 on 2017-10-18
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