Marine Species Traits - Drillia sinuosa (Montagu, 1803)

WoRMS taxon details

Drillia sinuosa (Montagu, 1803)

AphiaID

532771 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:532771)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Drillia J. E. Gray, 1838

Original name

Murex sinuosus Montagu, 1803

Synonymised names

Murex sinuosus Montagu, 1803 · unaccepted (original combination)

Pleurotoma (Clavus) amanda E. A. Smith, 1882 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Pleurotoma amanda E. A. Smith, 1882 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Murex sinuosus Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 264–265, pl. 9 fig. 8 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Drillia sinuosa (Montagu, 1803). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=532771 on 2025-05-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-10-15 08:28:27Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-10-15 08:54:50Z

checked

Rosenberg, Gary

2017-08-27 08:44:50Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description (of Murex sinuosus Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 264–265, pl. 9 fig. 8 [details]

original description (of Pleurotoma (Clavus) amanda E. A. Smith, 1882) Smith, E. A. (1882). Diagnoses of new species of Pleurotomidae in the British Museum. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 5, 10: 206-218., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29869922
page(s): 207-208. [details]

Other

additional source Oliver, P. G.; Morgenroth, H.; Salvador, A. (2017). Type specimens of Mollusca described by Col. George Montagu in the Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery, Exeter and The Natural History Museum, London. <em>Zoosystematics and Evolution.</em> 93(2): 363-412., available online at https://doi.org/10.3897/zse.93.13073
page(s): 401 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Malacopics (Drillia sinuosa)

Unreviewed

To Malacopics (Drillia sinuosa)

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