African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Rhombosepion Rochebrune, 1884

WoRMS taxon details

Rhombosepion Rochebrune, 1884

AphiaID

341776 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:341776)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Sepia rupellaria A. Férussac & A. d'Orbigny, 1835 accepted as Rhombosepion elegans (Blainville, 1827) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Sepiidae Leach, 1817

Original name

Rhombosepion Rochebrune, 1884

Synonymised names

Parasepia Naef, 1923 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Sepia (Rhombosepion) Rochebrune, 1884 · unaccepted > superseded rank

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Species Rhombosepion elegans (Blainville, 1827)
Species Rhombosepion omani (Adam & Rees, 1966)
Species Rhombosepion orbignyanum (A. Férussac, 1826)
Species Rhombosepion prashadi (Winckworth, 1936)
Species Rhombosepion hieronis G. C. Robson, 1924 accepted as Lusepia hieronis (G. C. Robson, 1924) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Rhombosepion robsoni Massy, 1927 accepted as Digitosepia robsoni (Massy, 1927) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

neuter

Original description

Rochebrune, A. T. de. (1884). Étude monographique de la famille des Sepiadae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. ser. 7, 8(2): 74-122, pls 3-6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31636806
page(s): 82 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Rhombosepion Rochebrune, 1884. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=341776 on 2025-05-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-03-27 06:45:57Z

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Decock, Wim

2011-02-22 20:06:55Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2016-05-16 06:55:40Z

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Finn, Julian

2016-05-19 10:38:19Z

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Finn, Julian

2023-06-19 22:12:37Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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Nomenclature

original description Rochebrune, A. T. de. (1884). Étude monographique de la famille des Sepiadae. Bulletin de la Société Philomathique de Paris. ser. 7, 8(2): 74-122, pls 3-6., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31636806
page(s): 82 [details]

original description (of Parasepia Naef, 1923) Naef, A. (1923). Die Cephalopoden. Fauna e Flora de Golfo di Napoli. monograph 35, 1(1) part 2: 149-863. [details]

Other

additional source Lu, C.C. (2001). Cephalopoda. pp. 129-308 in Wells, A. & Houston, W.W.K. eds. Zoological Catalogue of Australia. Vol. 17.2. Mollusca: Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Cephalopoda. Melbourne: CSIRO Publishing, Australia xii 353 pp.
note: treated as synonym of Sepia [details]

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