MolluscaBase - Homalocantha melanamathos (Gmelin, 1791)

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Homalocantha melanamathos (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

224943 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224943)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Homalocantha Mörch, 1852

Original name

Murex melanamathos Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Homalocantha melanamathos f. chinii Biraghi, 1984 · unaccepted > unavailable name

Murex melanamathos Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (original combination)

Purpura tuberosa Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (synonym)

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Forma Homalocantha melanamathos f. chinii Biraghi, 1984 accepted as Homalocantha melanamathos (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > unavailable name)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Murex melanamathos Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Homalocantha melanamathos (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224943 on 2025-03-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-03-20 07:57:38Z

created

Nsiangango, Silvi Edith

2009-06-27 21:37:03Z

changed

Houart, Roland

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original description (of Murex melanamathos Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

original description (of Homalocantha melanamathos f. chinii Biraghi, 1984) Biraghi, F. (1984). New species of Gabon. La Conchiglia. 16 (184-185): 12-13. [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Purpura tuberosa Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]

basis of record Merle, D., Garrigues, B. & Pointier, J.P. (2022). Fossil and Recent Muricidae of the world: Part Muricopsinae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 528 pp.
page(s): 454, pl. 143 figs 1-9 [details]

additional source Gofas, S., Afonso, J.P. & Brandào, M. (1985). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp. Printed without date. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Bernard P.A. (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140 pp, 75 plates, illus. (look up in IMIS) [details]