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WoRMS taxon details

Tegula pellisserpentis (W. Wood, 1828)

AphiaID

413468 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:413468)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Tegula R. P. Lesson, 1833

Original name

Trochus pellisserpentis W. Wood, 1828

Synonymised names

Tegula elegans R. P. Lesson, 1833 · unaccepted

Trochus elegans R. P. Lesson, 1835 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Trochus pellisserpentis W. Wood, 1828 · unaccepted (original combination)

Trochus strigilatus Anton, 1838 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Trochus pellisserpentis W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 16 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tegula pellisserpentis (W. Wood, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413468 on 2026-07-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-08-29 19:12:46Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2011-06-23 12:55:56Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-08-26 14:08:03Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-10-11 23:27:42Z

changed

Köhler, Frank

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Tegula elegans R. P. Lesson, 1833) Lesson, R.-P. (1832-1833). Illustrations de zoologie ou Recueil de figures d'animaux peintes d'après nature. Arthus Bertrand, Paris. 60 pls and accompanying text. [Published in 20 livraisons of 3 plates, one livraison every month, starting in April 1832. Pls 1-27 =1832; pls 28-60 = 1833]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28723624
page(s): pl. 51, figs 1-2, A. [details]

original description (of Trochus pellisserpentis W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 16 [details]

original description (of Trochus strigilatus Anton, 1838) Anton, H. E. (1838). Verzeichniss der Conchylien welche sich in der Sammlung von Herrmann Eduard Anton befinden. Herausgegeben von dem Besitzer. Halle: Anton. xvi + 110 pp. [Title page dated 1839, but volume actually published in 1838; see Cernohorsky, 1978, The Veliger 20(3): 299]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11967421
page(s): 56 [details]

basis of record Williams S.T., Karube S. & Ozawa T. (2008) Molecular systematics of Vetigastropoda: Trochidae, Turbinidae and Trochoidea redefined. Zoologica Scripta 37: 483–506., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00341.x [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Coan, E. V.; Petit, R. E. (2011). The publications and malacological taxa of William Wood (1774-1857). Malacologia. 54(1-2): 1-76., available online at https://doi.org/10.4002/040.054.0109
page(s): 27 [details] Available for editors

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