WoRMS taxon details
Spirula Lamarck, 1799
138517 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138517)
accepted
Genus
Nautilus spirula Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)
Lituus J. E. Gray, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Spirulea [sic] · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling [by...)
incorrect subsequent spelling [by Péron & Lesueur, 1807] of Spirula Lamarck, 1799
- Species Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Spirula australis Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Spirula blakei Lönnberg, 1896 accepted as Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Spirula fragilis Lamarck, 1801 accepted as Nautilus spirula Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) (junior objective synonym of Nautilus spirula, Rejected and Invalid Species Names in Zoology O.315)
- Species Spirula peroni Lamarck, 1822 accepted as Spirula peronii Lamarck, 1822 accepted as Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
- Species Spirula peronii Lamarck, 1822 accepted as Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
- Species Spirula prototypus [sic] accepted as Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling; junior synonym)
- Species Spirula reticulata Owen, 1848 accepted as Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 80 [details]
page(s): 80 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Spirula Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138517 on 2026-10-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 80 [details]
original description (of Lituus J. E. Gray, 1849) Gray, J. E. (1849). <i>Catalogue of the Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum I: Cephalopoda antepedia</i>. London: British Museum. 164 pp,. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47563
page(s): 114; note: name attributed by Gray to Browne [1789, Jamaica] and Humphreys [1797, Museum Calonnianum], both nomenclaturally unavailable works. [details]
page(s): 80 [details]
original description (of Lituus J. E. Gray, 1849) Gray, J. E. (1849). <i>Catalogue of the Mollusca in the collection of the British Museum I: Cephalopoda antepedia</i>. London: British Museum. 164 pp,. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47563
page(s): 114; note: name attributed by Gray to Browne [1789, Jamaica] and Humphreys [1797, Museum Calonnianum], both nomenclaturally unavailable works. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
