Marine Species Traits - Discula tectiformis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)

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Discula tectiformis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)

AphiaID

1050208 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1050208)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Discula R. T. Lowe, 1852

Original name

Helix tectiformis G. B. Sowerby I, 1824

Synonymised names

Discula (Mandahlia) tectiformis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824) · alternative representation

Helix tectiformis G. B. Sowerby I, 1824 · unaccepted (original combination)

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Subspecies Discula tectiformis ludovici (Albers, 1852) †
Subspecies Discula tectiformis tectiformis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Original description

(of Helix tectiformis G. B. Sowerby I, 1824) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1824). Descriptions, accompanied by figures, of several Helices, discovered by T. E. Bowdich, Esq. at Porto Santo. <em>Zoological Journal.</em> 1: 56-58 [March]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27570783
page(s): 57, pl. 3, fig. 6 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Porto Santo

type locality contained in Porto Santo [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Discula tectiformis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1824). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1050208 on 2025-05-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-12-20 07:59:28Z

created

Neubert, Eike

2020-03-20 20:13:01Z

changed

Köhler, Frank

Licensing

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original description (of Helix tectiformis G. B. Sowerby I, 1824) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1824). Descriptions, accompanied by figures, of several Helices, discovered by T. E. Bowdich, Esq. at Porto Santo. <em>Zoological Journal.</em> 1: 56-58 [March]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27570783
page(s): 57, pl. 3, fig. 6 [details]

basis of record Bank, R. A.; Neubert, E. (2017). Checklist of the land and freshwater Gastropoda of Europe. Last update: July 16th, 2017. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Discula tectiformis)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Helix tectiformis G. B. Sowerby I, 1824)
To IUCN Red List (Endangered)

Unreviewed

Discula tectiformis