Marine Species Traits - Prisogaster niger (W. Wood, 1828)

Traits taxon details

Prisogaster niger (W. Wood, 1828)

AphiaID

413385 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:413385)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Prisogaster Mörch, 1850

Original name

Turbo niger W. Wood, 1828

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of ) Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 18, pl. 6 Turbo fig. 1 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Prisogaster niger (W. Wood, 1828). Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413385 on 2026-09-14

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Prisogaster niger (W. Wood, 1828). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413385 on 2026-09-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-08-29 16:17:48Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2011-10-04 19:52:00Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-09-15 18:35:36Z

changed

Nielsen, Sven

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original description (of ) Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 18, pl. 6 Turbo fig. 1 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. Revista de Biologia Tropical. 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors

basis of record Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592., available online at http://, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00854.x [details] Available for editors

additional source DeVries, T. J. (2006). The Neogene history of Prisogaster Mörch, 1850 (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) in South America. The Nautilus. 120 (4): 139-149.
note: fossil record [details] Available for editors

additional source Nielsen, S. N. (2013). A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile. Paläontologische Zeitschrift Springer. 87: 33-66., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-012-0146-0
page(s): 37, fig. 2k-l; note: Pliocene fossils [details] Available for editors

identification resource Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), A Conchological Iconography. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245. [details]