WoRMS taxon details
original description
(of Trochus iris Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 page(s): 3580 [details]
original description
(of Limax opalus Martyn, 1784) Martyn, T. (1784-1787). The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shells. London, published by the author. 4 vols. 40 pp., 80 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41889680 [details]
original description
(of Cantharidus opalus cannoni A. W. B. Powell, 1933) Powell, A. W. B. (1933). The marine Mollusca of the Chatham Islands. <em>Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum.</em> 1: 181-208., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60406360 page(s): 194 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description
(of Cantharidus opalus var. biangulatus Suter, 1908) Suter H. (1908). Additions to the marine molluscan fauna of New Zealand, with descriptions of new species. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 8: 22-42, pls 2-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32058169 page(s): 22 [details]
original description
(of Trochus acuminatus Perry, 1811) Perry, G. (1811). Conchology, or the natural history of shells: containing a new arrangement of the genera and species, illustrated by coloured engravings executed from the natural specimens, and including the latest discoveries. W. Miller, London, 4 pp. + 61 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41764832 page(s): pl. 47, fig. 1 [details]
basis of record
Marshall, B. A. (1998). The New Zealand Recent species of <i>Cantharidus</i> Montfort, 1810 and <i>Micrelenchus</i> Finlay, 1926 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). <em>Molluscan Research.</em> 19 (1): 107-156. [details]
additional source
Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
additional source
Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
From editor or global species database
Authority Use of name from Martyn (1784) validated by ICZN Opinion 479. [details]
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Cantharidus iris (Gmelin, 1791))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Trochus acuminatus Perry, 1811)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Limax opalus Martyn, 1784)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (60 publications) (from synonym Trochus iris Gmelin, 1791)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cantharidus opalus)
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To Malacopics (Cantharidus opalus (Martyn, 1784) New Zealand, Marlborough, Awatere Co., Marfell Be...
To Museum of New Zealand Te Papa (M.138236; Limax opalus Martyn, 1784; Trochus iris Gmelin, 1791; Trochus acuminatus Perry, 1811, neotype) (from synonym Limax opalus Martyn, 1784)
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