WoRMS taxon details

Glabella Swainson, 1840

465262  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:465262)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
  6. Neogastropoda (Order)
  7. Volutoidea (Superfamily)
  8. Marginellidae (Family)
  9. Marginellinae (Subfamily)
  10. Glabella (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Voluta faba Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Glabella faba (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation)
Faba P. Fischer, 1883 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Marginella (Faba) P. Fischer, 1883 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Marginella (Glabrella) [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

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  1. Species Glabella adansoni (Kiener, 1834)
  2. Species Glabella ansonae Clover, 1974
  3. Species Glabella bellii (G. B. Sowerby II, 1846)
  4. Species Glabella bifasciata (Lamarck, 1822)
  5. Species Glabella casamancensis T. Cossignani, 2023
  6. Species Glabella denticulata (Link, 1807)
  7. Species Glabella faba (Linnaeus, 1758)
  8. Species Glabella fumigata (Gofas & F. Fernandes, 1994)
  9. Species Glabella giannellii T. Cossignani, 2023
  10. Species Glabella harpaeformis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1846)
  11. Species Glabella liturata (Menke, 1843)
  12. Species Glabella macua F. Boyer, Rosado & Gori, 2018
  13. Species Glabella mirabilis (H. Adams, 1869)
  14. Species Glabella mozambicana F. Boyer, 2014
  15. Species Glabella nodata (Hinds, 1844)
  16. Species Glabella obtusa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1846)
  17. Species Glabella omanensis F. Boyer, 2014
  18. Species Glabella pseudofaba (G. B. Sowerby I, 1846)
  19. Species Glabella reeveana (Petit de la Saussaye, 1851)
  20. Species Glabella ricardoi Rosado & F. Boyer, 2025
  21. Species Glabella rosadoi (Kilburn, 1994)
  22. Species Glabella rotunda F. Boyer, 2014
  23. Species Glabella tyermani (Marrat, 1876)
  24. Species Glabella xicoi (F. Boyer, Ryall & Wakefield, 1999)
  25. Species Glabella youngi (Kilburn, 1977)
  26. Species Glabella arenaria Mörch, 1852 accepted as Glabella denticulata (Link, 1807)
  27. Species Glabella beali (T. L. McGinty, 1940) accepted as Prunum beali (T. L. McGinty, 1940) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  28. Species Glabella eveleighi (Tomlin & Schackleford, 1913) accepted as Glabella tyermani (Marrat, 1876)
  29. Species Glabella ferreirai Félix-Alves, 1996 accepted as Glabella mozambicana F. Boyer, 2014 (unavailable (manuscript) name)
  30. Species Glabella formicula (Lamarck, 1822) accepted as Austroginella formicula (Lamarck, 1822)
  31. Species Glabella guillaini (Petit de la Saussaye, 1851) accepted as Glabella obtusa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1846)
  32. Species Glabella henrikasi (Bozzetti, 1995) accepted as Marginella henrikasi Bozzetti, 1995
  33. Species Glabella keppeli (Sykes, 1905) accepted as Glabella tyermani (Marrat, 1876)
  34. Species Glabella lateritia (Melvill & Sykes, 1903) accepted as Dentimargo lateritius (Melvill & Sykes, 1903) accepted as Marginella lateritia Melvill & Sykes, 1903
  35. Species Glabella lucani (Jousseaume, 1884) accepted as Marginella lucani Jousseaume, 1884
  36. Species Glabella miniobtusa Bozzetti, 1994 accepted as Glabella rosadoi (Kilburn, 1994)
  37. Species Glabella nubicola Swainson, 1840 accepted as Marginella nebulosa (Röding, 1798)
  38. Species Glabella pyrulata (Redfield, 1848) accepted as Prunum labiatum (Kiener, 1841)
  39. Species Glabella quilonica (Melvill, 1898) accepted as Dentimargo quilonica (Melvill, 1898) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  40. Species Glabella ruffina Swainson, 1840 accepted as Marginella glabella (Linnaeus, 1758)
marine
Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 133, 324 [details] 
Taxonomy It is debatable whether it is justified to distinguish this genus from Marginella s. str. without a comprehensive...  
Taxonomy It is debatable whether it is justified to distinguish this genus from Marginella s. str. without a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of the family. However the two genera cannot be objective synonyms becasue Marginella glabella (Linnaeus, 1758) is not one of the species originally included in Glabella [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Glabella Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=465262 on 2025-07-13
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2010-03-11 13:34:31Z
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Tran, Bastien
2014-07-04 11:41:18Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2018-10-06 06:19:07Z
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Bouchet, Philippe

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Nomenclature

original description Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 133, 324 [details] 

original description (of Marginella (Phaenospira) Hinds, 1844) Hinds, R. B. (1844). Descriptions of Marginellae collected during the voyage of H. M. S. Sulphur, and from the collection of H. Cuming Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1844) 12: 72-77., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862366
page(s): 72 [details] 

original description (of Marginella (Faba) P. Fischer, 1883) Fischer, P. (1880-1887). <i>Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique, ou histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un Appendice sur les Brachiopodes par D. P. Oehlert. Avec 23 planches contenant 600 figures dessinées par S. P. Woodward.</i>. Paris: F. Savy. Published in 11 parts (fascicules), xxiv + 1369 pp., 23 pls. [1: 1-112, 21 September 1880; 2: 113-192, 16 March 1881; 3: 193-304, 28 July 1881; 4: 305-416, 5 May 1882; 5: 417-512, 21 February 1883; 6: 513-608, 20 December 1883; 7: 609-688, 30 June 1884; 8: 689-784, 29 January 1885; 9: 785-896, 31 August 1885; 10: 897-1008, 30 April 1886; 11: 1009-1369, 15 June 1887]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47340
page(s): 602 [details] 

basis of record Cossignani, T. (2006). <i>Marginellidae & Cystiscidae of the World</i>. L'Informatore Piceno. 408 pp. [details] 

Taxonomy

status source Coovert, G. A.; Coovert, H. K. (1995). Revision of the supraspecific classification of marginelliform gastropods. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 109(2-3): 43-100., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8274195
page(s): 97-98 [details] 

Other

subsequent type designation Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 142 [details] 

 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
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Taxonomy It is debatable whether it is justified to distinguish this genus from Marginella s. str. without a comprehensive phylogenetic hypothesis of the family. However the two genera cannot be objective synonyms becasue Marginella glabella (Linnaeus, 1758) is not one of the species originally included in Glabella [details]
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