WoRMS taxon details
Homalocantha scorpio (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 217159
AphiaID: 217159
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Muricopsinae (Subfamily) > Homalocantha (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Homalocantha Mörch, 1852 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Hexaplex fusca Perry, 1811 (synonym) Hexaplex tenuis Perry, 1811 (synonym) Murex scorpio Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Red Sea [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:217159 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Houart, R. (2013). Homalocantha scorpio (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=217159 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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