OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database

Data as of: 2006-05-17

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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Volutidae 

Voluta aethiopica Linnaeus, 1758

Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy


Senior name:

Melo aethiopica (Linnaeus, 1758)

Types

Primary Type: holotype Secondary Type: paratype [] Linnaeus, C. 1758. p.735, no. 373
holotype Indonesia

References

 Gualtieri, N. 1742. pl. 29, fig. 1 Illustration of type specimen
 Hanley, S. 1855.  Subsequent type designation

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Volutoidea
                        Volutidae Rafinesque, 1815
                          Cymbiolinae Bondarev, 1995
                            Melo Broderip in Sowerby, 1826
                              Melo aethiopica (Linnaeus, 1758)
                                Voluta aethiopica Linnaeus, 1758

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=37933) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.