WoRMS taxon details
Planaxis sulcatus (Born, 1778)
AphiaID: 216719
AphiaID: 216719
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order) > Cerithioidea (Superfamily) > Planaxidae (Family) > Planaxinae (Subfamily) > Planaxis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Planaxis Lamarck, 1822 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Buccinum sulcatum Born, 1778 (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Drivas, J. & M. Jay (1988). Coquillages de La Réunion et de l'île Maurice [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] additional source: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp. page(s): 36 [details] additional source: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 50 [details] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aldabra [details] Chagos [details] Kenya [details] Madagascar [details] Mascarene Basin [details] Mauritius [details] Mozambique [details] Red Sea [details] Tanzania [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (3 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (79 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (14 nucleotides; 8 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: Habitat: rocky shores Shell with moderately short spire, up to 3 cm. Colour purplish-brown with a white pattern. Aperture brown, edged with white dashes. Habitat: upper eulittoral rocks. Distribution: Indo-Pacifi (Richmond, 1997); tropical Indo-Pacific, also in Australia in Kalk (1958). [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Spelling: Spelled P. sulcata in Kalk (1958). [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216719 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Planaxis sulcatus (Born, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216719 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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