Marine Species Traits - Narceus americanus (Palisot de Beauvouis, 1817)

Traits taxon details

Narceus americanus (Palisot de Beauvouis, 1817)

Narceus americanus

AphiaID

947023 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:947023)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Narceus Rafinesque, 1820

Original name

Julus americanus Palisot de Beauvouis, 1817

Synonymised names

Narceus oklahomae (Chamberlin, 1931) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Narceus tinctorius Rafinesque, 1820 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Spirobolus melanior Chamberlin, 1943 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Spirobolus pensacolae Bollman, 1887 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Spirobolus ramstadti Chamberlin, 1943 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

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

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

Sierwald, P.; Decker, P.; Spelda, J. (2025). MilliBase. Narceus americanus (Palisot de Beauvouis, 1817). Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=947023 on 2026-07-13

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Narceus americanus (Palisot de Beauvouis, 1817). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=947023 on 2026-07-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-01-23 07:41:39Z

created

Sierwald, Petra

2017-01-23 14:56:15Z

changed

Sierwald, Petra

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original description (of Narceus tinctorius Rafinesque, 1820) Rafinesque, C. S. (1820). Selista forceps. Annals of Nature, 1: 7
page(s): 8 [details]

original description (of Spirobolus pensacolae Bollman, 1887) Bollman, C. H. (1887). Notes on North American Julidae. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 4: 25-44, available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=umn.319510004425580&seq=5
page(s): 29 [details]

original description (of Spirobolus ramstadti Chamberlin, 1943) Chamberlin, R. V. (1943). On some genera and species of American millipeds. Bulletin of the University of Utah, Biological series, 8(2): 1-20
page(s): 7 [details]

original description (of Spirobolus melanior Chamberlin, 1943) Chamberlin, R. V. (1943). On some genera and species of American millipeds. Bulletin of the University of Utah, Biological series, 8(2): 1-20
page(s): 9 [details]

Definitions

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Narceus americanus)
To GenBank (221 nucleotides; 69 proteins)

From editor or global species database

Narceus americanus