Marine Species Traits - Ptychostylus Möllendorff, 1888

MolluscaBase name details

Ptychostylus Möllendorff, 1888

AphiaID

999283 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:999283)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (invalid: preoccupied by Ptychostylus Sandberger, 1870)

Accepted name

Pachya Albers, 1850

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Helix cepoides I. Lea, 1840 accepted as Pachya cepoides (I. Lea, 1840) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Helicostylinae Ihering, 1909 (1890)

Original name

Ptychostylus Möllendorff, 1888

Environment

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

Original description

Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1888). Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete der Malakozoologie von den Philippinen. <em>Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 20(5/6): 65-90., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15599718
page(s): 74 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ptychostylus Möllendorff, 1888. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=999283 on 2025-05-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-06-19 13:01:19Z

created

Bank, Ruud

2018-04-15 02:39:47Z

changed

Köhler, Frank

Licensing

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Sources (2)

original description Möllendorff, O. F. von. (1888). Mittheilungen aus dem Gebiete der Malakozoologie von den Philippinen. <em>Nachrichtsblatt der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 20(5/6): 65-90., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15599718
page(s): 74 [details]

basis of record Bank, R. A. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017. [details]