WoRMS taxon details
Montfortista Iredale, 1929
585824 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:585824)
accepted
Genus
Montfortia (Montfortista) excentrica Iredale, 1929 accepted as Montfortista excentrica (Iredale, 1929) (type by original designation)
Emarginula (Siphonella) Issel, 1869 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Montfortia (Montfortista) Iredale, 1929 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Siphonella Issel, 1869 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of...)
Invalid: junior homonym of Siphonella Macquart, 1835 [Diptera] and Siphonella Hagenow, 1850 [Bryozoa].
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
(of Montfortia (Montfortista) Iredale, 1929) Iredale, T. (1929). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 9(3): 261-297, pls 30-31 [29 June 1929]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52430219
page(s): 269 [details]
page(s): 269 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Montfortista Iredale, 1929. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585824 on 2026-08-19
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Montfortia (Montfortista) Iredale, 1929) Iredale, T. (1929). Queensland molluscan notes, No. 1. <em>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum.</em> 9(3): 261-297, pls 30-31 [29 June 1929]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/52430219
page(s): 269 [details]
original description (of Emarginula (Siphonella) Issel, 1869) Issel, A. (1869). <i>Malacologia del Mar Rosso. Ricerche zoologiche e paleontologiche</i>. Biblioteca Malacologica, Pisa. xi + 387 pp., pls 1-5. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43995
page(s): 232 [details]
page(s): 269 [details]
original description (of Emarginula (Siphonella) Issel, 1869) Issel, A. (1869). <i>Malacologia del Mar Rosso. Ricerche zoologiche e paleontologiche</i>. Biblioteca Malacologica, Pisa. xi + 387 pp., pls 1-5. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43995
page(s): 232 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
McLean, J. H. (2011). Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). <em>Malacologia.</em> 54(1-2): 407-427., available online at https://doi.org/10.4002/040.054.0111 [details] Available for editors 
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Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
