WoRMS taxon details
Mutela Scopoli, 1777
1058033 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1058033)
accepted
Genus
Iridina Lamarck, 1819 · unaccepted (synonym)
Mutela (Pteromutela) Starobogatov, 1970 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Mutelina Bourguignat, 1886 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Pteromutela Starobogatov, 1970 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Spatha I. Lea, 1838 · unaccepted (synonym)
Spatha (Mutela) Scopoli, 1777 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Spatha (Spatha) I. Lea, 1838 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Mutela alata (I. Lea, 1864)
- Species Mutela alluaudi Germain, 1910
- Species Mutela bourguignati Bourguignat, 1886
- Species Mutela cummingsi (Van Damme & Pickford, 2010) †
- Species Mutela dubia (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Mutela franci Daget, 1964
- Species Mutela hargeri E. A. Smith, 1908
- Species Mutela joubini (Germain, 1904)
- Species Mutela langi Pilsbry & Bequaert, 1927
- Species Mutela legumen (Rochebrune, 1886)
- Species Mutela mabilli (Rochebrune, 1886)
- Species Mutela nyamaviensis Van Damme & Pickford, 2010 †
- Species Mutela rostrata (Rang, 1835)
- Species Mutela soleniformis Bourguignat, 1886
- Species Mutela wistarmorrisi Graf & Cummings, 2006
- Species Mutela zambesiensis Mandahl-Barth, 1988
- Subgenus Mutela (Pteromutela) Starobogatov, 1970 accepted as Mutela Scopoli, 1777 (junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mutela angustata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1868) accepted as Mutela dubia (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mutela bridouxi Bourguignat, 1886 accepted as Mutela soleniformis Bourguignat, 1886 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mutela carrei (Putzeys, 1898) accepted as Mutela legumen (Rochebrune, 1886) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mutela chevalieri Germain, 1904 accepted as Mutela dubia (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Mutela cuneata Preston, 1910 accepted as Mutela alata (I. Lea, 1864) (junior synonym)
- Species Mutela jouberti Bourguignat, 1886 accepted as Mutela soleniformis Bourguignat, 1886 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mutela lavigeriana Bourguignat, 1886 accepted as Mutela soleniformis Bourguignat, 1886 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mutela lhotelleriana Preston, 1909 accepted as Mutela mabilli (Rochebrune, 1886) (junior synonym)
- Species Mutela lukululensis Preston, 1913 accepted as Aspatharia pfeifferiana (Bernardi, 1860) (junior synonym)
- Species Mutela mathildae Preston, 1913 accepted as Aspatharia subreniformis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1867) (junior synonym)
- Species Mutela moineti Bourguignat, 1886 accepted as Mutela soleniformis Bourguignat, 1886 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mutela monceti Bourguignat, 1886 accepted as Mutela soleniformis Bourguignat, 1886 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mutela nilotica (Cailliaud, 1823) accepted as Mutela dubia (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Mutela opalescens Preston, 1910 accepted as Mutela alata (I. Lea, 1864) (junior synonym)
- Species Mutela sarae Preston, 1913 accepted as Aspatharia subreniformis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1867) (junior synonym)
- Species Mutela simpsoni Ancey, 1894 accepted as Mutela alata (I. Lea, 1864) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mutela visseri Bourguignat, 1886 accepted as Mutela soleniformis Bourguignat, 1886 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Mutela mycetopoides R. B. Newton, 1909 † (uncertain > nomen dubium)
recent + fossil
feminine
Scopoli, G.A. (1777). Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. <em>Pragae. Wolfgang Gerle.</em> Pp i-x + 1-506., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10827
page(s): 397 [details]
page(s): 397 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mutela Scopoli, 1777. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1058033 on 2025-03-31
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Nomenclature
original description
Scopoli, G.A. (1777). Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. <em>Pragae. Wolfgang Gerle.</em> Pp i-x + 1-506., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10827
page(s): 397 [details]
original description (of Iridina Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): 88 [details]
original description (of Spatha I. Lea, 1838) Lea, I. (1838). Description of new freshwater and land shells. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> new ser., 6: 1-154, plates 1-24., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26881423
page(s): 118, 141 [details]
original description (of Mutelina Bourguignat, 1886) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1886). Espèces nouvelles et genres nouveaux découverts par les Rév. Pères missionnaires dans les grands lacs africains Oukéréwé et Tanganika. 1-39. Paris (Tremblay). Dated 1885, published 1886., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13042386
page(s): 11 [details]
page(s): 397 [details]
original description (of Iridina Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): 88 [details]
original description (of Spatha I. Lea, 1838) Lea, I. (1838). Description of new freshwater and land shells. <em>Transactions of the American Philosophical Society.</em> new ser., 6: 1-154, plates 1-24., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26881423
page(s): 118, 141 [details]
original description (of Mutelina Bourguignat, 1886) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1886). Espèces nouvelles et genres nouveaux découverts par les Rév. Pères missionnaires dans les grands lacs africains Oukéréwé et Tanganika. 1-39. Paris (Tremblay). Dated 1885, published 1886., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13042386
page(s): 11 [details]
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