Marine Species Traits - Onustus indicus (Gmelin, 1791)

Traits taxon details

Onustus indicus (Gmelin, 1791)

Onustus indicus

AphiaID

468053 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:468053)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Onustus Swainson, 1840

Original name

Trochus indicus Gmelin, 1791

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3575 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Onustus indicus (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468053 on 2026-09-22

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Onustus indicus (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=468053 on 2026-09-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-04-21 07:04:33Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2013-11-09 08:02:19Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

[taxonomic tree] [clear cache]

original description (of ) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3575 [details]

basis of record Kreipl K. & Alf A. (1999). Recent Xenophoridae. Conchbooks, Hackenheim > Germany. 148pp. [details]

basis of record Kreipl, K. & Lorenz, F. (2023). <i>Carrier shells. Garbage collectors of the oceans. A portrait of the gastropod family Xenophoridae</i>. Molluscan Science, volume 4. 96 pp.
page(s): 66-67 [details]

additional source Raven, J.G.M. (H.). (2021). Notes on molluscs from NW Borneo 8. Stromboidea (Gastropoda, Neogastropoda). Addendum, including the description of two new genera and seven new extinct species. <em>Vita Malacologica.</em> 20: 23-50.
page(s): 26, pl. 1 fig. 3 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Onustus indicus)
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Malacopics (Onustus indicus (Gmelin, 1791) Australia, Queensland, Keppel Bay, ex coll. J. Traus...

From editor or global species database

Onustus indicus

Unreviewed

To Malacopics (Onustus indicus (Gmelin, 1791) Australia, Queensland, Keppel Bay, ex coll. J. Traus...

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