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Heliacus variegatus (Gmelin, 1791) 
AphiaID: 214973

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > [unassigned] Heterobranchia (Infraclass) > Architectonicoidea (Superfamily) > Architectonicidae (Family) > Heliacus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Heliacus d'Orbigny, 1842
Synonymised
taxa		  Heliacus (Heliacus) variegatus (Gmelin, 1791)
 Torinia rosae Selli, 1973 †
Sources  basis of record: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [details]

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]

additional source: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

from synonym: Mienis H.K. (1996) On the identity of Torinia rosae and Mangonuia (Awarua) aloysii, two architectonicid species described by Selli, 1973, from the Quaternary of Massawa, Ethiopia. Basteria 59: 90. [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Bieler R. (1993). Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg (NF) 30: 1-376 [15 December].
page(s): 185 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English variegated sundial shell  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Aldabra [details]
Mascarene Basin [details]
Mauritius [details]
Red Sea [details]
Tanzania [details]
West Coast of South Africa [details]
Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Heliacus variegatus
Heliacus variegatus
added on 2012-07-12 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:214973
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-09-22 18:28:29Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
2011-11-04 16:16:35Z  changed  Bieler, Rudiger
2012-07-13 23:36:34Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2012-09-28 15:27:29Z  changed  Bieler, Rudiger
  
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  Citation: Bieler, R.; Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2013). Heliacus variegatus (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=214973 on 2013-05-25
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