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Gibbulinopsis fontana (Krauss, 1848)
1252789 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1252789)
accepted
Species
Ennea iredalei Preston, 1911 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pupa amphodon Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pupa charybdica Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pupa custodita Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pupa elizabethensis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pupa endoplax Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pupa fontana Krauss, 1848 · unaccepted (original combination)
Pupa frustillum Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pupa keraea Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pupa omicronaria Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pupa raffrayi Bourguignat, 1883 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pupilla (Gibbulinopsis) fontana (Krauss, 1848) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Pupilla fontana (Krauss, 1848) · unaccepted > superseded combination
- Subspecies Gibbulinopsis fontana fontana (Krauss, 1848)
- Subspecies Gibbulinopsis fontana gorgonica (Dohrn, 1869)
(of Pupa fontana Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 80, pl. 5, fig. 6. [details]
page(s): 80, pl. 5, fig. 6. [details]
Type locality contained in South Africa (country)
type locality contained in South Africa (country) [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
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original description
(of Pupa fontana Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 80, pl. 5, fig. 6. [details]
original description (of Pupa custodita Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1894). Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 14 (80): 90-95, pl. 1. London. [1 August].
page(s): 93, pl. 1, fig. 9. [details]
original description (of Pupa omicronaria Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1894). Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 14 (80): 90-95, pl. 1. London. [1 August].
page(s): 93, pl. 1, fig. 11 [details]
original description (of Pupa keraea Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1894). Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 14 (80): 90-95, pl. 1. London. [1 August].
page(s): 94 [details]
original description (of Pupa charybdica Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1894). Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 14 (80): 90-95, pl. 1. London. [1 August].
page(s): 94, pl. 1, fig. 13. [details]
original description (of Pupa frustillum Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1894). Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 14 (80): 90-95, pl. 1. London. [1 August].
page(s): 94, pl. 1, fig. 14. [details]
original description (of Pupa amphodon Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1896). Descriptions of new terrestrial Mollusca from South Africa. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 18 (106): 314-318, pl. 16. London. [1 October]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15628501
page(s): 317-318, pl. 16, figs 6, 7. [details]
original description (of Pupa endoplax Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1901). Descriptions of fourteen new species of terrestrial Mollusca from South Africa. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (7) 8 (46): 315-321, pl. 2. London. [1 October]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29980371
page(s): 319, pl. 2, fig. 10. [details]
original description (of Pupa elizabethensis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1892). Descriptions of seventeen new terrestrial mollusks from South or Central Africa, in the collection of EDGAR L. LAYARD, Esq. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 9 (49): 87-94, pl. 4-6. London. [1 January]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15617730
page(s): 91, pl. 5, fig. 13. [details]
original description (of Pupa raffrayi Bourguignat, 1883) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1883). Histoire malacologique de l'Abyssinie. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles (Zoologie et Paléontologie).</em> (6) 15 (2): 1-162, pls 7-11; [± June]. Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/46223#/summary
page(s): 71 [details]
original description (of Ennea iredalei Preston, 1911) Preston, H.B. (1911). Descriptions of nine new species of terrestrial Mollusca from Naivasha, British East Africa. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 1 (2): 218-221, pl. 11. Bruxelles [31 August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32992082
page(s): 218, pl. 11, fig. 5. [details]
additional source Bruggen, A. C. van. (1967). Miscellaneous notes on Southern African Gastropoda Euthyneura (Mollusca). <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen.</em> 91: 1-34, 1 plate. Leiden., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/317698
page(s): 6, figs 3, 4, jaw and radula [details]
source of synonymy Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1908). A survey of the species and varieties of Pupa, DRAPARNAUD (Jaminia, RISSO), occurring in South Africa. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 1 (1): 70-86, pl. 1-2. London. [1 January]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24295769
page(s): 74 [details]
page(s): 80, pl. 5, fig. 6. [details]
original description (of Pupa custodita Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1894). Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 14 (80): 90-95, pl. 1. London. [1 August].
page(s): 93, pl. 1, fig. 9. [details]
original description (of Pupa omicronaria Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1894). Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 14 (80): 90-95, pl. 1. London. [1 August].
page(s): 93, pl. 1, fig. 11 [details]
original description (of Pupa keraea Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1894). Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 14 (80): 90-95, pl. 1. London. [1 August].
page(s): 94 [details]
original description (of Pupa charybdica Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1894). Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 14 (80): 90-95, pl. 1. London. [1 August].
page(s): 94, pl. 1, fig. 13. [details]
original description (of Pupa frustillum Melvill & Ponsonby, 1894) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1894). Descriptions of fifteen new species of South-African terrestrial Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 14 (80): 90-95, pl. 1. London. [1 August].
page(s): 94, pl. 1, fig. 14. [details]
original description (of Pupa amphodon Melvill & Ponsonby, 1896) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1896). Descriptions of new terrestrial Mollusca from South Africa. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 18 (106): 314-318, pl. 16. London. [1 October]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15628501
page(s): 317-318, pl. 16, figs 6, 7. [details]
original description (of Pupa endoplax Melvill & Ponsonby, 1901) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1901). Descriptions of fourteen new species of terrestrial Mollusca from South Africa. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (7) 8 (46): 315-321, pl. 2. London. [1 October]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29980371
page(s): 319, pl. 2, fig. 10. [details]
original description (of Pupa elizabethensis Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892) Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1892). Descriptions of seventeen new terrestrial mollusks from South or Central Africa, in the collection of EDGAR L. LAYARD, Esq. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (6) 9 (49): 87-94, pl. 4-6. London. [1 January]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15617730
page(s): 91, pl. 5, fig. 13. [details]
original description (of Pupa raffrayi Bourguignat, 1883) Bourguignat, J.-R. (1883). Histoire malacologique de l'Abyssinie. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles (Zoologie et Paléontologie).</em> (6) 15 (2): 1-162, pls 7-11; [± June]. Paris., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/46223#/summary
page(s): 71 [details]
original description (of Ennea iredalei Preston, 1911) Preston, H.B. (1911). Descriptions of nine new species of terrestrial Mollusca from Naivasha, British East Africa. Revue de Zoologie Africaine, 1 (2): 218-221, pl. 11. Bruxelles [31 August]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32992082
page(s): 218, pl. 11, fig. 5. [details]
additional source Bruggen, A. C. van. (1967). Miscellaneous notes on Southern African Gastropoda Euthyneura (Mollusca). <em>Zoologische Verhandelingen.</em> 91: 1-34, 1 plate. Leiden., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/317698
page(s): 6, figs 3, 4, jaw and radula [details]
source of synonymy Melvill, J. C. & Ponsonby, J. H. (1908). A survey of the species and varieties of Pupa, DRAPARNAUD (Jaminia, RISSO), occurring in South Africa. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 1 (1): 70-86, pl. 1-2. London. [1 January]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24295769
page(s): 74 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
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| English | four-toothed chrysalis snail [from synonym] | [details] |
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