WoRMS name details
Cancellaria microscopica Dall, 1889
465473 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465473)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cancellaria (Trigonostoma) microscopica Dall, 1889) Dall, W. H. (1889). Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College.</em> 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25505
page(s): 131 [details]
page(s): 131 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cancellaria microscopica Dall, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465473 on 2026-08-13
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cancellaria (Trigonostoma) microscopica Dall, 1889) Dall, W. H. (1889). Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College.</em> 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25505
page(s): 131 [details]
basis of record Petit R.E. & Harasewych M.G. (2005). Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) - 2nd edition. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1102: 3-161., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1102.1.1 [details]
page(s): 131 [details]
basis of record Petit R.E. & Harasewych M.G. (2005). Catalogue of the superfamily Cancellarioidea Forbes and Hanley, 1851 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) - 2nd edition. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 1102: 3-161., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.1102.1.1 [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Hemmen, J. (2007). <i>Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae</i>. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, <i>Recent Cancellariidae</i> by Jens Hemmen, 2007. <i>Conchologia Ingrata</i> 9: 1-8]. [details]
additional source Hemmen, J. (2007). <i>Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae</i>. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, <i>Recent Cancellariidae</i> by Jens Hemmen, 2007. <i>Conchologia Ingrata</i> 9: 1-8]. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cancellaria (Trigonostoma) microscopica Dall, 1889 Syntype USNM 82977)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cancellaria microscopica Dall, 1889 Syntype USNM 107987)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cancellaria (Trigonostoma) microscopica Dall, 1889 Syntype USNM 82977)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Cancellaria microscopica Dall, 1889 Syntype USNM 107987)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
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