WoRMS taxon details
Prunum martini (Petit de la Saussaye, 1853)
473969 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:473969)
accepted
Species
Cryptospira martini (Petit de la Saussaye, 1853) · unaccepted (original combination)
Marginella fraterculus E. A. Smith, 1915 · unaccepted
Marginella martini Petit de la Saussaye, 1853 · unaccepted (original combination)
Prunum fraterculus (E. A. Smith, 1915) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Marginella martini Petit de la Saussaye, 1853) Petit de la Saussaye, S. (1853). Descriptions de coquilles nouvelles. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 4(4): 360-369, pls 11-13., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15859723
page(s): 367-368, pl. 11 fig. 8 [details]
page(s): 367-368, pl. 11 fig. 8 [details]
Type locality contained in Southeastern Brazil
type locality contained in Southeastern Brazil [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Distribution Bahia, Brazil to San Antonio Este, Río Negro Province, Argentina, in low intertidal to 106 m depth (live and depth range...
Distribution Bahia, Brazil to San Antonio Este, Río Negro Province, Argentina, in low intertidal to 106 m depth (live and depth range similar). Also collected from Holocene deposits from Uruguay and Buenos Aires Province. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Prunum martini (Petit de la Saussaye, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=473969 on 2025-08-26
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
(of Marginella martini Petit de la Saussaye, 1853) Petit de la Saussaye, S. (1853). Descriptions de coquilles nouvelles. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 4(4): 360-369, pls 11-13., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15859723
page(s): 367-368, pl. 11 fig. 8 [details]
original description (of Marginella fraterculus E. A. Smith, 1915) Smith, E. A. (1915). Mollusca. Part I. - Gastropoda Prosobranchia, Scaphopoda and Pelecypoda. <em>British Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition, Natural History Reports (Zoology).</em> 2(4): 61-112, pls 1-2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/965528
page(s): 95, pl. 2, fig. 13. [details]
basis of record Teso, V.; Scarabino, F.; Pacheco, L.; Pastorino, G. (2025). Revealing new taxa and biogeographic patterns in shallow and deep-sea Marginellidae gastropods of the southwestern Atlantic. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 318: 77-105., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2025.07.002
page(s): 80, figs 1-2, 6M-N [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 367-368, pl. 11 fig. 8 [details]
original description (of Marginella fraterculus E. A. Smith, 1915) Smith, E. A. (1915). Mollusca. Part I. - Gastropoda Prosobranchia, Scaphopoda and Pelecypoda. <em>British Antarctic Terra Nova Expedition, Natural History Reports (Zoology).</em> 2(4): 61-112, pls 1-2., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/965528
page(s): 95, pl. 2, fig. 13. [details]
basis of record Teso, V.; Scarabino, F.; Pacheco, L.; Pastorino, G. (2025). Revealing new taxa and biogeographic patterns in shallow and deep-sea Marginellidae gastropods of the southwestern Atlantic. <em>Zoologischer Anzeiger.</em> 318: 77-105., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcz.2025.07.002
page(s): 80, figs 1-2, 6M-N [details] Available for editors

Other
additional source
Cossignani, T. (2006). <i>Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World</i>. L'Informatore Piceno. 408 pp. [details]





From editor or global species database
Distribution Bahia, Brazil to San Antonio Este, Río Negro Province, Argentina, in low intertidal to 106 m depth (live and depth range similar). Also collected from Holocene deposits from Uruguay and Buenos Aires Province. [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Malacopics (Prunum martini (Petit de la Saussaye, 1853) Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, off Cabo San Tome, in sand, at 50 m depth, collected August 1989, ex coll. J.G.B. Nieuwenhuis)
To NHMUK collection (Marginella fraterculus E. A. Smith, 1915; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:3506155) (from synonym Marginella fraterculus E. A. Smith, 1915)
To Malacopics (Prunum martini (Petit de la Saussaye, 1853) Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, off Cabo San Tome, in sand, at 50 m depth, collected August 1989, ex coll. J.G.B. Nieuwenhuis)
To NHMUK collection (Marginella fraterculus E. A. Smith, 1915; SYNTYPE(S); NHMUK:ecatalogue:3506155) (from synonym Marginella fraterculus E. A. Smith, 1915)