WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Xymene plebeius (F. W. Hutton, 1873)

To Museum of New Zealand Te Papa (M.000080; Fusus inferus Hutton, 1873; neotype and Fusus plebeius Hutton, 1873; lectotype)

AphiaID

399420 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:399420)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Xymene Iredale, 1915

Original name

Fusus plebeius F. W. Hutton, 1873

Synonymised names

Fusus inferus F. W. Hutton, 1873 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Fusus plebeius F. W. Hutton, 1873 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Xymene inferus (F. W. Hutton, 1878) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Fusus plebeius F. W. Hutton, 1873) Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1352868 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone

type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (origin: native - endemic) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Xymene plebeius (F. W. Hutton, 1873). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=399420 on 2026-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-06-14 21:50:48Z

created

Houart, Roland

2013-01-20 19:13:36Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2015-01-16 10:00:55Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2020-04-12 21:12:57Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2023-09-09 19:58:20Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Fusus plebeius F. W. Hutton, 1873) Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1352868 [details]

original description (of Fusus inferus F. W. Hutton, 1873) Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1352868
page(s): 9 [details]

Other

additional source Beu, A. G. (2011). Marine Molluscs of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 4. <em>Gastropoda (Ptenoglossa, Neogastropoda, Heterobranchia). Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand.</em> 41: 1-153., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2011.548763 [details] Available for editors

[request]

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]