WoRMS taxon details
Limneria H. Adams & A. Adams, 1851
159902 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159902)
accepted
Genus
Limneria caspiensis H. Adams & A. Adams, 1851 (type by monotypy)
Limneria (Conivelutina) A. N. Golikov & Gulbin, 1990 · alternative representation
Limneria (Limneria) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1851 · alternative representation
Marvillia [sic] · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling [by...)
incorrect subsequent spelling [by Hägg, 1905] of Morvillia Gray, 1857
Morvillia J. E. Gray, 1857 · unaccepted
Velutina (Limneria) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1851 · unaccepted
Velutina (Morvillia) J. E. Gray, 1857 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Limneria insculpta (Odhner, 1913)
- Species Limneria prolongata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864)
- Species Limneria undata (T. Brown, 1839)
- Subgenus Limneria (Conivelutina) A. N. Golikov & Gulbin, 1990 represented as Limneria H. Adams & A. Adams, 1851
- Subgenus Limneria (Limneria) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1851 represented as Limneria H. Adams & A. Adams, 1851
- Species Limneria (Limneria) insculpta (Odhner, 1913) represented as Limneria insculpta (Odhner, 1913)
- Species Limneria (Limneria) undata (T. Brown, 1839) represented as Limneria undata (T. Brown, 1839)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
feminine
Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1851). On two new genera of Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (2) 7: 63-64., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13787641
page(s): 64 [details]
page(s): 64 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Limneria H. Adams & A. Adams, 1851. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159902 on 2026-09-07
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Nomenclature
original description
Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1851). On two new genera of Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (2) 7: 63-64., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13787641
page(s): 64 [details]
original description (of Limneria (Conivelutina) A. N. Golikov & Gulbin, 1990) Golikov A.N., Gulbin V.V. (1990). On the system of the family Velutinidae Gray, 1842 (Gastropoda) [К построению системы брюхоногих моллюсков семейства Velutinidae Gray, 1842 (Gastropoda)]. <em>Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR.</em> 218: 105-129.
page(s): 108, 113, 117 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Morvillia J. E. Gray, 1857) Gray, J. E. (1857). <i>Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum</i>. Part I. [Gastropoda]. British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp. [9 May; Preface dated 10 Dec. 1856]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/117528
page(s): 45 [details]
page(s): 64 [details]
original description (of Limneria (Conivelutina) A. N. Golikov & Gulbin, 1990) Golikov A.N., Gulbin V.V. (1990). On the system of the family Velutinidae Gray, 1842 (Gastropoda) [К построению системы брюхоногих моллюсков семейства Velutinidae Gray, 1842 (Gastropoda)]. <em>Trudy Zoologicheskogo Instituta Akademii Nauk SSSR.</em> 218: 105-129.
page(s): 108, 113, 117 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Morvillia J. E. Gray, 1857) Gray, J. E. (1857). <i>Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum</i>. Part I. [Gastropoda]. British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp. [9 May; Preface dated 10 Dec. 1856]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/117528
page(s): 45 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
