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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Mitridae 

Voluta paupercula Linnaeus, 1758

Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy


Senior name:

Mitra (Strigatella) paupercula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Types

Primary Type: lectotype [] Linnaeus, C. 1758. p.731
(illustration) lectotype T[anjun]g Nama, Ambon Bay, Ambon I., Indonesia (by subequent designation by Cernohorsky, 1976)

Keywords

Original Epithet:  paupercula
Original Text Name:  Voluta paupercula Linnaeus, 1758
Original Genus:  Voluta

References

 Cernohorsky, W. O. 1976. p.479 [ The holotype of M. paupercula (Linnaeus) is not in the Linnean collection, London, and Cernohorsky (1969) designated the Gualtieri figure L, on pl. 54 as the lectotype of M. paupercula. ]  Type information

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Volutoidea
                        Mitridae
                          Mitrinae
                            Mitra Lamarck, 1798
                              Mitra (Strigatella) Swainson, 1840
                                Mitra (Strigatella) paupercula (Linnaeus, 1758)
                                  Voluta paupercula Linnaeus, 1758

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=13172) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.