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Homalocantha melanamathos (Gmelin, 1791) 
AphiaID: 224943

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		  Homalocantha melanamathos f. chinii Biraghi, 1984 (synonym)
 Murex melanamathos Gmelin, 1791 (original combination)
 Purpura tuberosa Röding, 1798 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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Forma Homalocantha melanamathos f. chinii Biraghi, 1984 accepted as Homalocantha melanamathos (Gmelin, 1791)
Environment marine
Distribution Angola [details]
Equatorial zone [details]
Nyonié [details]
Port Gentil [details]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  authority: (Gmelin, 1791) according to Bernard [details]
Images 
Homalocantha melanamathos
Homalocantha melanamathos
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Homalocantha melanamathos
Homalocantha melanamathos
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224943
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2006-03-20 07:57:38Z  created  Nsiangango, Silvi Edith
2009-06-27 21:37:03Z  changed  Houart, Roland
  
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  Citation: Houart, R. (2013). Homalocantha melanamathos (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224943 on 2013-05-23
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