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WoRMS taxon details

Bulbus T. Brown, 1839

AphiaID

138237 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138237)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Bulbus smithii T. Brown, 1839 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Polinicinae J. E. Gray, 1847

Orig. name

Bulbus T. Brown, 1839

Synonymised names

Acrybia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 · unaccepted

Lunatia (Acrybia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 · unaccepted (original rank)

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Species Bulbus fragilis (Leach, 1819)
Species Bulbus normalis (Middendorff, 1851)
Species Bulbus smithii T. Brown, 1839
Species Bulbus striatus A. N. Golikov & Sirenko, 1983
Species Bulbus tenuiculus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1915) (accepted > unreplaced junior homonym)
Subgenus Bulbus (Amauropsis) Morch, 1857 accepted as Amauropsis Mörch, 1857 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
1. Species Bulbus (Amauropsis) islandicus (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Bulbus benthicolus Dell, 1990 accepted as Falsilunatia benthicola (Dell, 1990) (original combination)
Species Bulbus carcellesi Dell, 1990 accepted as Falsilunatia carcellesi (Dell, 1990)
Species Bulbus flavus (A. Gould, 1840) accepted as Bulbus smithii T. Brown, 1839 (junior subjective synonym)
Species Bulbus globosus (Jeffreys, 1885) accepted as Phalium saburon (Bruguière, 1792) accepted as Semicassis saburon (Bruguière, 1792) (based on a larval shell of a cassid)
Species Bulbus incurvus Dunker, 1852 accepted as Rapa incurva (Dunker, 1852) (original combination)
Species Bulbus scotianus Dell, 1990 accepted as Falsilunatia scotiana (Dell, 1990) (original combination)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Smith, J. (1839). On the last changes in the relative levels of the land and sea in the British Islands. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 8: 49-113, pl. 1-2. Edinburgh., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35485515
page(s): 94, 103 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Bulbus T. Brown, 1839. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138237 on 2024-04-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-03-20 08:13:00Z

changed

Wambiji, Nina

2011-09-24 21:59:23Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-10-24 14:39:52Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-10-26 03:51:05Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-11-18 08:40:49Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

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original description Smith, J. (1839). On the last changes in the relative levels of the land and sea in the British Islands. Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society. 8: 49-113, pl. 1-2. Edinburgh., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35485515
page(s): 94, 103 [details]

original description (of Lunatia (Acrybia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
page(s): Vol. 1: 207. [details]

taxonomy source Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/251565.pdf [details] Available for editors

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basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]