MolluscaBase - Amastra (Amastrella) flavescens (Newcomb, 1854)

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Amastra (Amastrella) flavescens (Newcomb, 1854)

AphiaID

1699305 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1699305)

Classification

Status

alternative representation

Accepted name

Amastra flavescens (Newcomb, 1854)

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Species

Parent

Amastra (Amastrella) Sykes, 1900 represented as Amastra H. Adams & A. Adams, 1855

Original name

Achatinella flavescens Newcomb, 1854

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Variety Amastra (Amastrella) flavescens var. emortua C. M. Cooke, 1917 accepted as Amastra flavescens emortua C. M. Cooke, 1917 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Subspecies Amastra (Amastrella) flavescens flavescens (Newcomb, 1854) represented as Amastra flavescens flavescens (Newcomb, 1854)
Subspecies Amastra (Amastrella) flavescens henshawi Baldwin, 1903 represented as Amastra flavescens henshawi Baldwin, 1903
Subspecies Amastra (Amastrella) flavescens saxicola Baldwin, 1903 represented as Amastra flavescens saxicola Baldwin, 1903

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Original description

(of Achatinella flavescens Newcomb, 1854) Newcomb, W. (1854). Descriptions of seventy·nine new species of Achatinella, (Swains.) a genus of pulmoniferous mollusks, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. pp. 3-31, 3 pls.
page(s): 25, pl. 24, fig. 62 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Amastra (Amastrella) flavescens (Newcomb, 1854). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1699305 on 2025-09-12

Taxonomic edit history

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2023-09-26 23:50:05Z

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Auffenberg, Kurt

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original description (of Achatinella flavescens Newcomb, 1854) Newcomb, W. (1854). Descriptions of seventy·nine new species of Achatinella, (Swains.) a genus of pulmoniferous mollusks, in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. pp. 3-31, 3 pls.
page(s): 25, pl. 24, fig. 62 [details]

basis of record Cowie, R. H., Evenhuis, N. L. & Christensen, C. C. (1995). Catalog of the native land and freshwater molluscs of the Hawaiian Islands. vi + 248 pp. Leiden: Backhuys Publishers.
page(s): 97 [details] Available for editors

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