Marine Species Traits - Balcis alba (da Costa, 1778)

WoRMS name details

Balcis alba (da Costa, 1778)

AphiaID

231879 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:231879)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Accepted name

Melanella alba (da Costa, 1778)

Rank

Species

Parent

Balcis Leach, 1847 accepted as Melanella Bowdich, 1822

Original name

Strombiformis albus da Costa, 1778

Environment

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

Original description

(of Strombiformis albus da Costa, 1778) Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783
page(s): 116-117 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Balcis alba (da Costa, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=231879 on 2025-05-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-07-13 11:39:45Z

created

Camba Reu, Cibran

2020-05-05 10:51:13Z

checked

Köhler, Frank

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description (of Strombiformis albus da Costa, 1778) Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783
page(s): 116-117 [details]

basis of record Lebour, M. V. (1935). The Larval Stages of Balcis alba and B. devians. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 20(1): 65-69., available online at https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/78756263.pdf [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 publications)
To ITIS