African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Leucophytia Winckworth, 1949

WoRMS taxon details

Leucophytia Winckworth, 1949

AphiaID

153944 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153944)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Voluta bidentata Montagu, 1808 accepted as Leucophytia bidentata (Montagu, 1808) (type by typification of replaced name)

Parent

Ellobiinae L. Pfeiffer, 1854 (1822)

Original name

Leucophytia Winckworth, 1949

Synonymised names

Auriculinella (Leucophytia) Winckworth, 1949 · unaccepted

Conovulus (Leuconia) Gray, 1840 · unaccepted

Leuconia Gray, 1840 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of...)

Invalid: junior homonym of Leuconia Grant, 1833 [Porifera]; Leucopepla and Leucophytia are replacement names

Leucopepla Peile, 1926 · unaccepted (Replacement name for Leuconia...)

Replacement name for Leuconia Gray, 1840, non Grant, 1833; invalid: junior homonym of Leucopepla Kirkaldy, 1907

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Species Leucophytia bidentata (Montagu, 1808)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Winckworth, R. (1949). A new name for Leuconia Gray. Journal of Conchology. 23 (2): 38. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Leucophytia Winckworth, 1949. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153944 on 2025-05-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-16 10:28:02Z

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Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-09-27 18:17:44Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2013-08-23 17:11:24Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2017-06-23 08:52:56Z

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Bank, Ruud

2020-08-10 06:51:54Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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Nomenclature

original description Winckworth, R. (1949). A new name for Leuconia Gray. Journal of Conchology. 23 (2): 38. [details]

original description (of Leucopepla Peile, 1926) Peile A.J. (1926). The Mollusca of Bermuda. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 17(2-3): 71-98.
page(s): 74 [details]

original description (of Conovulus (Leuconia) Gray, 1840) Gray, J. E. (1840). A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands by W. Turton. A new edition. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. i-ix, 1-324, plates 1-12. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18243759
page(s): 227 [details]

basis of record Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors