Alcithoe arabica
creator: Bail, Patrice
creator: Marshall, Bruce
date: 2026-08-01
language: en
license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
publisher: World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS)
relation: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php
subject: Alcithoe arabica (Gmelin, 1791)
type: ScientificName
bibliographic citation: MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Alcithoe arabica (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=385225 on 2026-08-01
created: 2009-03-13T15:22:46Z
modified: 2020-04-14T22:35:05Z
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rights holder: WoRMS Editorial Board
scientific name: Alcithoe arabica (Gmelin, 1791)
class: Gastropoda
family: Volutidae
genus: Alcithoe
kingdom: Animalia
name published in: Perry G. (1810-1811). Arcana: or the Museum of Natural History. pls. 1-48 (= 1810), pls. 49-84 (= 1811), unnumbered text pages. London: James Stratford.
name published in: Swainson, W. (1821). Exotic conchology; or figures and descriptions of rare, beautiful, or undescribed shells. London: W. Wood, J. & A. Arch. 39 pp., 48 pls.
name published in: Marwick, J. (1926). Tertiary and recent Volutidae of New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 56: 259-303.
name published in: Powell, A. W. B. (1928). Three new Recent volutes from New Zealand. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 59: 361-364.
name published in: Marwick, J. (1924). Palaeontological notes on some Pliocene Mollusca from Hawke's Bay. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 55: 191-201.
name published in: Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910.
name published in: Suter, H. (1908). Descriptions of new species of New Zealand marine shells. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 8: 178-191.
name published in: Marshall, P.; Murdoch, R. (1920). Some Tertiary Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 52: 128-136.
name published in year: 1810-1811
name published in year: 1821
name published in year: 1926
name published in year: 1928
name published in year: 1924
name published in year: 1791
name published in year: 1908
name published in year: 1920
order: Neogastropoda
parent name usage ID: 382339
phylum: Mollusca
scientific name authorship: (Gmelin, 1791)
specific epithet: arabica
taxon rank: Species
taxonomic status: accepted