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Epitonium scalare (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 207942

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order) > Epitonioidea (Superfamily) > Epitoniidae (Family) > Epitonium (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Epitonium Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa
  Epitonium breve Röding, 1798
Epitonium gradatum Grabau & King, 1929
Epitonium laevis Grabau & King, 1929
Epitonium lineatum Röding, 1798
Epitonium medium Röding, 1798
Epitonium minor Grabau & King, 1929
Epitonium multivariciferum E. A. Smith, 1911
Epitonium principale Röding, 1798
Epitonium pygmaeum Grabau & King, 1929
Epitonium subtile Grabau & King, 1929
Scala scalaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Scalaria conica Lamarck, 1822
Scalaria pretiosa Lamarck, 1816
Scalaria scalaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Turbo scalaris Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Kilburn, R.N. (1985). The Family Epitoniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in southern Africa and Mozambique. Ann. Natal Mus. 27(1): 239-337. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 85 [details]


from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea [details]
South Africa (country) [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Subgenus: (Epitonium) [details]
Image 
Epitonium scalare
Epitonium scalare
added on 2013-01-21 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207942
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-11-12 07:24:15Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2004-02-04 18:13:47Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-10-01 21:22:21Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Epitonium scalare (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207942 on 2013-05-22
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