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Data as of: 2006-05-17

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Gastropoda Hypsogastropoda Mitridae 

Voluta abbatis Dillwyn, 1817

Type of listing: Entry in a Synonymy


Senior name:

Mitra (Nebularia) contracta Swainson, 1820

Types

Primary Type: lectotype [non Mitra abbatis Perry, 1811] Dillwyn, L.W. 1817. p.557
ZMUC lectotype "East Indian seas"

Keywords

Original Epithet:  abbatis
Original Text Name:  Voluta abbatis Dillwyn, 1817
Original Genus:  Voluta

References

 Cernohorsky, W. O. 1976. p.394 [ The specimen figured by Chemnitz, 1795 in figures 1709, 1710, is in ZMUC; it is designated by Cernohorsky (1976: p.394) as the lectotype of Voluta abbatis Dillwyn. ]  Type information

Classification

  Animalia
    Mollusca
      Conchifera
        Visceroconcha
          Gastropoda
            Orthogastropoda
              Caenogastropoda
                Sorbeoconcha
                  Hypsogastropoda
                    Neogastropoda
                      Volutoidea
                        Mitridae
                          Mitrinae
                            Mitra Lamarck, 1798
                              Mitra (Nebularia) Swainson, 1840
                                Mitra (Nebularia) contracta Swainson, 1820
                                  Voluta abbatis Dillwyn, 1817

Metadata

Taxon name record (intBiotaID=47860) created by on unknown date. Record not subsequently updated.