WoRMS name details

Perotrochus caledonicus Bouchet & Métivier, 1982

468001  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:468001)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Vetigastropoda (Subclass)
  6. Pleurotomariida (Order)
  7. Pleurotomarioidea (Superfamily)
  8. Pleurotomariidae (Family)
  9. Perotrochus (Genus)
  10. Perotrochus caledonicus (Species)
 unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Bouchet, P. & Métivier, B. (1982). Recent Pleurotomariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the South Pacific. <em>New Zealand Journal of Zoology.</em> 9: 309–318.
page(s): 309, figs 1-2, 4D [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
Type locality contained in New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone  
type locality contained in New Caledonian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Perotrochus caledonicus Bouchet & Métivier, 1982. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468001 on 2026-01-21
Date
action
by
2010-04-20 06:38:01Z
created
Tran, Bastien
2011-04-03 06:48:38Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2013-05-12 18:36:54Z
changed
Gofas, Serge
2015-09-18 06:48:45Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2023-09-27 10:01:18Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe

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Nomenclature

original description Bouchet, P. & Métivier, B. (1982). Recent Pleurotomariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the South Pacific. <em>New Zealand Journal of Zoology.</em> 9: 309–318.
page(s): 309, figs 1-2, 4D [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

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 Anseeuw P., Puillandre N., Utge J. & Bouchet P. (2015). <i>Perotrochus caledonicus</i> (Gastropoda: Pleurotomariidae) revisited: descriptions of new species from the South-West Pacific. <em>European Journal of Taxonomy.</em> 134: 1-23., available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2015.134 [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) 
To Conchology (Perotrochus caledonicus YOUNG) 
To Conchology (Perotrochus caledonicus) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Perotrochus caledonicus) 
To GenBank (30 nucleotides; 35 proteins) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 894652 Shell plate specimen1) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (IZ MOL 894652 Shell Plate specimen2) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
Unreviewed

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