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Ceratostoma Herrmannsen, 1846
240766 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:240766)
accepted
Genus
Murex nuttalli Conrad, 1837 accepted as Ceratostoma nuttalli (Conrad, 1837) (type by typification of replaced name)
Cerastoma [sic] · unaccepted (misspelling of genus)
Cerostoma Conrad, 1837 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)
invalid: junior homonym of Cerostoma Latreille, 1802 [Lepidoptera]; Ceratostoma is an emendation
Jaton (Ceratostoma) Herrmannsen, 1846 · unaccepted
Murex (Cerostoma) Conrad, 1837 · unaccepted (junior homonym of Cerostoma...)
junior homonym of Cerostoma Latreille, 1802
Ocenebra (Cerostoma) Conrad, 1837 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Pteropurpura (Ceratostoma) Herrmannsen, 1846 · unaccepted
Pterorytis (Microrhytis) W. K. Emerson, 1959 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Spinostoma Coen, 1947 · unaccepted > unavailable name (not available: no type species...)
not available: no type species designated
- Species Ceratostoma burnettii (Reeve, 1849)
- Species Ceratostoma foliatum (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Ceratostoma fournieri (Crosse, 1861)
- Species Ceratostoma monoceros (G. B. Sowerby II, 1841)
- Species Ceratostoma nuttalli (Conrad, 1837)
- Species Ceratostoma rorifluum (Reeve, 1849)
- Species Ceratostoma steiningeri Harzhauser, Landau & Merle, 2025 †
- Subgenus Ceratostoma (Ocenebra) J. E. Gray, 1847 accepted as Ocenebra Leach, 1847 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Ceratostoma (Ocenebra) aduncum (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834) accepted as Ocinebrellus falcatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1834) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ceratostoma (Ocenebra) japonica (Dunker, 1860) accepted as Ocinebrellus inornatus (Récluz, 1851) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Ceratostoma (Ocenebra) lumaria (Yokoyama, 1926) accepted as Ocinebrellus lumarius (Yokoyama, 1926) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Ceratostoma (Pteropurpura) Jousseaume, 1880 accepted as Pteropurpura Jousseaume, 1880
- Species Ceratostoma (Pteropurpura) vespertilio Kira, 1959 accepted as Timbellus vespertilio (Kira, 1959)
- Species Ceratostoma genei (Bellardi & Michelotti, 1840) † accepted as Kestocenebra genei (Bellardi & Michelotti, 1841) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Ceratostoma inornatum (Récluz, 1851) accepted as Ocinebrellus inornatus (Récluz, 1851) (recombination)
- Species Ceratostoma inornatus (Récluz, 1851) accepted as Ocinebrellus inornatus (Récluz, 1851)
- Species Ceratostoma subaustriacum (Stojaspal, 1978) † accepted as Kestocenebra subaustriaca (Stojaspal, 1978) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Ceratostoma varicosum (Kuroda, 1953) accepted as Genkaimurex varicosus (Kuroda, 1953)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Herrmannsen, A. N. (1846-1852). Indicis Generum Malacozoorum primordia. Fischer, Cassel. Vol. 1: i-xxviii, 1-637 pp. [i-xxviii + 1-104: 1 Sep 1846; 105-232: 1 Dec 1846; 233-360: 1 Mar 1847; 361-488: 18 Apr 1847; 489-616: 25 May 1847; 617-637: 17 Jul 1847]; 2: 1-717, xxix-xlii pp. [1-104: 17 Jul 1847; 105-232: 8 Sep 1847; 233-352: 7 Dec 1847; 353-492: 18 Feb 1848; 493-612: Feb 1849; 613-717 + xxix-xliii: Mar 1849]; Supplementa et corrigenda: i-v, 1-140 pp. [Dec 1852]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10695423
page(s): 206, 207 [details]
page(s): 206, 207 [details]
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original description
Herrmannsen, A. N. (1846-1852). Indicis Generum Malacozoorum primordia. Fischer, Cassel. Vol. 1: i-xxviii, 1-637 pp. [i-xxviii + 1-104: 1 Sep 1846; 105-232: 1 Dec 1846; 233-360: 1 Mar 1847; 361-488: 18 Apr 1847; 489-616: 25 May 1847; 617-637: 17 Jul 1847]; 2: 1-717, xxix-xlii pp. [1-104: 17 Jul 1847; 105-232: 8 Sep 1847; 233-352: 7 Dec 1847; 353-492: 18 Feb 1848; 493-612: Feb 1849; 613-717 + xxix-xliii: Mar 1849]; Supplementa et corrigenda: i-v, 1-140 pp. [Dec 1852]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10695423
page(s): 206, 207 [details]
original description (of Spinostoma Coen, 1947) Coen G. (1947). Appunti di malacologia mediterranea. - <i>Emarginula dubia</i> n. sp. - Sul <i>Murex sofiae</i> Ar. e Ben. - Su un nuovo genere di Buccinide- Sulle <i>Tritonalia</i> Fleming 1828 (= <i>Ocinebra</i> Gray 1824)- Di una nuova forma monstruosa di <i>Murex brandaris</i>. <em>Acta Pontificia Academia Scientiarum.</em> 11(7): 79-92.
page(s): 90 [details]
original description (of Pterorytis (Microrhytis) W. K. Emerson, 1959 †) Emerson, W. K. (1959). The gastropod genus <i>Pterorytis</i>. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1974: 1-8.
page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Murex (Cerostoma) Conrad, 1837) Conrad, T. A. (1837). Description of new marine shells, from Upper California. Collected by Thomas Nuttall, Esq. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 227-268, pls 17-20., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24676893
page(s): 263. [details]
basis of record Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR.</em> 116: 1-292 [In Russian]., available online at http://ashipunov.info/shipunov/school/books/golikov1978_rakov_brjukh_litorali_morei_sssr.djvu
page(s): 201 [details]
basis of record Houart, R. (2024). <i>Living Muricidae of the world. Ocenebrinae</i>. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 238 pp.
page(s): 26 [details]
page(s): 206, 207 [details]
original description (of Spinostoma Coen, 1947) Coen G. (1947). Appunti di malacologia mediterranea. - <i>Emarginula dubia</i> n. sp. - Sul <i>Murex sofiae</i> Ar. e Ben. - Su un nuovo genere di Buccinide- Sulle <i>Tritonalia</i> Fleming 1828 (= <i>Ocinebra</i> Gray 1824)- Di una nuova forma monstruosa di <i>Murex brandaris</i>. <em>Acta Pontificia Academia Scientiarum.</em> 11(7): 79-92.
page(s): 90 [details]
original description (of Pterorytis (Microrhytis) W. K. Emerson, 1959 †) Emerson, W. K. (1959). The gastropod genus <i>Pterorytis</i>. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1974: 1-8.
page(s): 6 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Murex (Cerostoma) Conrad, 1837) Conrad, T. A. (1837). Description of new marine shells, from Upper California. Collected by Thomas Nuttall, Esq. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 227-268, pls 17-20., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24676893
page(s): 263. [details]
basis of record Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR.</em> 116: 1-292 [In Russian]., available online at http://ashipunov.info/shipunov/school/books/golikov1978_rakov_brjukh_litorali_morei_sssr.djvu
page(s): 201 [details]
basis of record Houart, R. (2024). <i>Living Muricidae of the world. Ocenebrinae</i>. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 238 pp.
page(s): 26 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Remark n.n. pro Cerostoma Conrad, 1837 (non Latreille, 1802) [details]
