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WoRMS taxon details

Babylonia zeylanica (Bruguière, 1789)

AphiaID

475123 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:475123)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Babylonia Schlüter, 1838

Original name

Buccinum zeylanicum Bruguière, 1789

Synonymised names

Babylonia bengalensis Gra-tes, 2025 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Buccinum giratum Röding, 1798 · unaccepted

Buccinum zeylanicum Bruguière, 1789 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Buccinum zeylanicum Bruguière, 1789) Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke. volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; :345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 1(1): 264 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Babylonia zeylanica (Bruguière, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=475123 on 2025-11-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-05-06 13:19:49Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-12-07 20:50:28Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Buccinum giratum Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]

original description (of Buccinum zeylanicum Bruguière, 1789) Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke. volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; :345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 1(1): 264 [details]

original description (of Babylonia bengalensis Gra-tes, 2025) Gra-tes, C. (2025). A new species of Babylonia (Gastropoda: Babyloniidae) from the Bay of Bengal. Visaya. 6(2): 75-91.
page(s): 76, pl. 1 fig. 3, pl. 2 fig. 3, pl. 3, pl. 4 top, pls 5-6, pl. 9 fig. 1, pl. 10 fig. 1, pl. 11 [details]

basis of record Fraussen K. & Stratmann D. (2013) The family Babyloniidae. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A conchological iconography. Harxheim: Conchbooks. 96 pp., pls 1-48. [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomy

status source Yen, Y.-H. [Yu-Hsiu]; Joseph, J.; Liu, S.-Y. [Shang-Yin Vanson]. (2024). Delimiting species boundaries within the Babyloniidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Neogastropoda) using multi-locus phylogenetic analysis. Zoologica Scripta. 54(1): 17-32., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12694 [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Regteren Altena, C. O. van & Gittenberger, E. (1981). The genus Babylonia (Prosobranchia: Buccinidae). Zoologische Verhandelingen 188. Zoologische Verhandelingen 188. 1-57, pls 1-11., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/155429
page(s): 39 [details]