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WoRMS taxon details

Terebralia sulcata (Born, 1778)

AphiaID

216724 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216724)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Terebralia Swainson, 1840

Original name

Murex sulcatus Born, 1778

Synonymised names

Cerithium sulcatum (Born, 1778) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Murex moluccanus Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Murex sulcatus Born, 1778 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Potamides sulcatus (Born, 1778) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Potamides tenerrimus Schepman, 1895 · unaccepted

Environment

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

Original description

(of Murex sulcatus Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 324 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Terebralia sulcata (Born, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216724 on 2026-01-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-11-13 08:24:17Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2002-07-21 12:48:32Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-02-11 14:51:37Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-12-15 00:30:32Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2020-05-08 08:24:12Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Potamides tenerrimus Schepman, 1895) Schepman, M. M. (1895). A new Potamides. Notes from the Leyden Museum. 16: 133-135., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9298183 [details]

original description (of Murex sulcatus Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 324 [details]

original description (of Murex moluccanus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3563 [details]

basis of record Reid, D.G., Dyal, P., Lozouet, P., Glaubrecht, M. & Williams, S.T. (2008) Mudwhelks and mangroves: the evolutionary history of an ecological association (Gastropoda: Potamididae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47: 680-699. [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Lozouet, P.; Plaziat, J. C. (2008). Mangrove environments and molluscs Abatan River, Bohol and Panglao Islands, central Philippines. Hackenheim: Conchbooks, 160 pp. [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Brandt, R. A. M. (1974). The non-marine aquatic Mollusca of Thailand. Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 105: i-iv, 1-423., available online at https://www.zobodat.at/pdf/Archiv-fuer-Molluskenkunde_105_0001-0423.pdf
page(s): 195, pl. 14, fig. 39 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Yamanaka, T.; Mizota, C. (2001). Sulfur Nutrition of Gastropods and Bivalves Relevant to the Mangrove Forests: A Case Study from Central Sumatra, Indonesia. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 60 (1-2): 71-78. [details] Available for editors

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