MolluscaBase - Nassa francolina (Bruguière, 1789)

WoRMS name details

Nassa francolina (Bruguière, 1789)

AphiaID

215700 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215700)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet (francolinus is a noun in apposition)

Accepted Name

Nassa francolinus (Bruguière, 1789)

Rank

Species

Parent

Nassa Röding, 1798

Original name

Buccinum francolinus Bruguière, 1789

Synonymised names

Buccinum francolinus Bruguière, 1789 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Iopas francolinus (Bruguière, 1789) · unaccepted

Environment

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

Original description

(of Buccinum francolinus Bruguière, 1789) Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 1(1): 261 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nassa francolina (Bruguière, 1789). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215700 on 2025-03-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2002-01-04 11:38:38Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-06-01 11:03:53Z

changed

Houart, Roland

2024-01-19 20:51:04Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Buccinum francolinus Bruguière, 1789) Bruguière, J. G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des vers, volume 1. Paris: Pancoucke. Pp. i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 1(1): 261 [details]

Taxonomy

source of synonymy Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]

redescription Houart, R. (1996). The genus Nassa Röding 1798 in the Indo-West Pacific (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricidae: Rapaninae). Archiv für Molluskenkunde. 126 (1-2): 51-63. [30 December 1996]. [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Houart, R.; Kilburn, R. N. & Marais, A. P. (2010). Muricidae. pp. 176-270, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details]

Other

additional source Claremont, M., Vermeij, G. J., Williams, S. T. & Reid, D. G. (2013). Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013]. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Maes, V. O. (1966). Sexual dimorphism in the radula of the muricid genus Nassa. The Nautilus. 79(3): 73-80, pl. 5; figs. 1-14., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8517494 [details]