WoRMS taxon details
Scutus unguis (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 216284
AphiaID: 216284
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Vetigastropoda (Subclass) > Fissurelloidea (Superfamily) > Fissurellidae (Family) > Emarginulinae (Subfamily) > Scutus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Scutus Montfort, 1810 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Parmophorus elegans Gray, 1825 Parmophorus imbricatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 Patella unguis Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Scutus (Aviscutum) unguis (Linnaeus, 1758) Scutus angustatus A. Adams, 1851 Scutus corrugatus (Reeve, 1842) Scutus parunguis Iredale, 1940 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Abbott, R.T. & S.P. Dance (1986). Compendium of sea shells. American Malacologists, Inc:Melbourne, Florida [details] additional source: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 36 [details] additional source: Herbert D.G. (1987) Taxonomic studies on the Emarginulinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Hemitoma, Clypidina, Tugali, Scutus, Zeidora and two species of Emarginula. South African Journal of Zoology 22(1): 1-13. [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] from synonym: Kilburn R.N. (1978). The Emarginulinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 23(2):431453. [details] [view taxon] identification resource: Kilburn R.N. (1978). The Emarginulinae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Fissurellidae) of southern Africa and Mozambique. Annals of the Natal Museum 23(2):431453. [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Mascarene Basin [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Description: White shell, up to 6cm long, distinctive by absence of slit or apical hole, though there is a small indent in the posterior margin. The mantle has purple brown markings on a cream background. Habitat: shallow-water rocks and coral. (Richmond, 1997) [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216284 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Scutus unguis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216284 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||
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