WoRMS name details
Monoceros Lamarck, 1816
404428 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:404428)
unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of Monoceros Lacépède, 1798 [Pisces] and others)
Genus
Monoceros imbricatum Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774) (type by subsequent designation)
- Species Monoceros acuminatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 accepted as Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros ambiguus G. B. Sowerby I, 1846 accepted as Acanthina unicornis (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros breve G. B. Sowerby I, 1822 accepted as Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros brevidentatum (W. Wood, 1828) accepted as Acanthais brevidentata (W. Wood, 1828) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Monoceros calcar (Bruguière, 1789) accepted as Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774)
- Species Monoceros cingulatum Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Opeatostoma pseudodon (Burrow, 1815)
- Species Monoceros citrinum G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 accepted as Acanthina unicornis (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros costatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 accepted as Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774) (synonym)
- Species Monoceros crassilabrum Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Acanthina unicornis (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros cymatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 accepted as Mexacanthina lugubris (G. B. Sowerby I, 1822)
- Species Monoceros denticulatum W. Wood, 1828 accepted as Mexacanthina lugubris (G. B. Sowerby I, 1822) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros fusoides P. P. King, 1832 accepted as Chorus giganteus (R. P. Lesson, 1831) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros giganteum R. P. Lesson, 1831 accepted as Chorus giganteus (R. P. Lesson, 1831) (original combination)
- Species Monoceros glabratum Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Acanthina unicornis (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros globulus G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 accepted as Acanthina unicornis (Bruguière, 1789) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros grande G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 accepted as Neorapana grandis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Monoceros imbricatum Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros lugubre G. B. Sowerby I, 1822 accepted as Mexacanthina lugubris (G. B. Sowerby I, 1822) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Monoceros maculatum Gray, 1839 accepted as Acanthais brevidentata (W. Wood, 1828)
- Species Monoceros paucilirata Stearns, 1871 accepted as Acanthinucella paucilirata (Stearns, 1871) (original combination)
- Species Monoceros punctulatum J. E. Gray, 1835 accepted as Acanthinucella punctulata (J. E. Gray, 1835) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Monoceros striatum Lamarck, 1822 accepted as Acanthina monodon (Pallas, 1774) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Monoceros tuberculatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 accepted as Neorapana tuberculata (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) (junior synonym)
- Species Monoceros unicarinatum G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 accepted as Acanthinucella spirata (Blainville, 1832) (junior synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
neuter
Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278
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MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Monoceros Lamarck, 1816. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=404428 on 2026-03-26
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Nomenclature
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Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278
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