Chinese
Register of
Marine Species
(ChaRMS)
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Marine Species
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Bieler, R. & Petit, R. E. (2011). Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda). Zootaxa. 2948: 1-103.
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Bieler, R. & Petit, R. E.
2011
Catalogue of Recent and fossil “worm-snail” taxa of the families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae, and Turritellidae (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda)
Zootaxa
2948: 1-103
Publication
The taxonomy of the uncoiling “worm-snails” belonging to the marine gastropod families Vermetidae, Siliquariidae and Turritellidae is notoriously confused and their nominal species frequently mixed (in the literature as well as in type specimen collections) with members of superficially similar tube-building polychaete worms or members of unrelated molluscan groups. A long history of introducing and using infrasubspecific names and the rampant employment of homonymous names for unrelated taxa had contributed to a system that became unworkable. The current catalogue researches nearly 1,500 names that have been cited in conjunction with Recent and fossil taxa worm-snail taxonomy (six names above family-group level, 18 family-group names, 195 genus-group names, 1,278 species-group names). Each name’s validity and availability (in the sense of the I.C.Z.N. Code) was investigated and current placement within or outside the mentioned worm-snail families is suggested. 560 species-group names are interpreted as available for members of the worm-snail groups here under discussion. Of these, approximately 280 species-group names are available for extant taxa. Various formal First-Reviser actions are taken to resolve priority issues. The type species for Tulaxoda Blainville, 1828 is herein designated to be Serpulorbis polyphragma Sasso, 1827, making Tulaxoda an objective junior synonym of Thylacodes Guettard, 1770. Magilus Montfort, 1810 is declared a nomen protectum over Campulotus Guettard, 1770, a nomen oblitum. Recurring nomenclatural issues and those too complex to treat within the regular catalogue entries are discussed in 22 taxa notes. The catalogue is fully referenced in 766 literature titles and eight associated literature notes.
Biodiversity, Taxonomic and ecological diversity
Date action by 2013-01-12 18:30:12Z created db_admin
Serpulorbis Sasso, 1827 accepted as Thylacodes Guettard, 1770 (additional source)
Serpulorbis xenophorus Habe, 1961 accepted as Thylacodes xenophorus (Habe, 1961) (additional source) Siphonium Gray, 1850 accepted as Dendropoma Mörch, 1861 (additional source) Tenagodus Guettard, 1770 (additional source) Tenagodus cumingii Mörch, 1861 (additional source) Tenagodus trochlearis Mörch, 1861 (additional source) Vermetidae Rafinesque, 1815 (additional source)
English worm-snails for Vermetidae Rafinesque, 1815
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