Marine Species Traits - Helix megastoma Ancey, 1884

MolluscaBase name details

Helix megastoma Ancey, 1884

AphiaID

1811994 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1811994)

Classification

Status

uncertain > unassessed (use in recent literature not established by editor)

Rank

Species

Parent

Helix Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Helix megastoma Ancey, 1884

Environment

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

Original description

Ancey, C. F. (1884). Mollusques inédits du système européen. <em>Bulletins de la Société Malacologique de France.</em> 1: 157-172., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14890790
page(s): 161 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Mallorca

type locality contained in Mallorca [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Helix megastoma Ancey, 1884. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1811994 on 2025-05-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2025-05-01 08:53:57Z

created

Herbert, David

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Sources (2)
Documented distribution (1)

original description Ancey, C. F. (1884). Mollusques inédits du système européen. <em>Bulletins de la Société Malacologique de France.</em> 1: 157-172., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14890790
page(s): 161 [details]

additional source Wood, H. & Gallichan, J. (2008). The new molluscan names of César-Marie-Felix Ancey including illustrations of type material from the National Museum of Wales. Biotir Reports [Studies in biodiversity and systematics of terrestrial organisms], 3: i-vi, 1-162. Cardiff [June].
page(s): 65, pl. 18, fig. 2 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality