MolluscaBase - Pterynotus elongatus ([Lightfoot], 1786)

WoRMS taxon details

Pterynotus elongatus ([Lightfoot], 1786)

AphiaID

406217 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:406217)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pterynotus Swainson, 1833

Original name

Murex elongatus [Lightfoot], 1786

Synonymised names

Marchia elongata ([Lightfoot], 1786) · unaccepted

Murex clavus Kiener, 1842 · unaccepted (synonym and invalid: junior...)

synonym and invalid: junior homonym of Murex clavus Michelotti, 1841

Murex draco Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (synonym)

Murex elongatus [Lightfoot], 1786 · unaccepted (original combination)

Pterynotus (Pterynotus) elongatus ([Lightfoot], 1786) · alternative representation

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Murex elongatus [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. [book]. London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 65 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Java Sea

type locality contained in Java Sea (origin: native - non-endemic) [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Pterynotus elongatus ([Lightfoot], 1786). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=406217 on 2024-11-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-06-28 06:12:49Z

created

Houart, Roland

Licensing

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

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Murex clavus Kiener, 1842) Kiener, L. C. (1841-1843). Spécies général et iconographie des coquilles vivantes. Vol. 7. Famille des Canalifères. Troisième partie. Genres Rocher (Murex) Linné, pp. 1-130 + unpaginated erratum, pl. 1-47 [pp. 1-16 (1842), 17-130 (1843); pl. 1-47 (1842)]; Triton (Triton) Lamarck, pp. 1-48, pl. 1-18 [all (1842)]; Ranelle (Ranella) Lamarck, pp. 1-40, pl. 1-15 [pp. 1-40 (1842), pl. 1-15 (1841)]. Paris, Rousseau & J.B. Baillière. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/87548
page(s): Murex: 111, pl. 37 fig. 2 [details]

original description (of Murex draco 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]

original description (of Murex elongatus [Lightfoot], 1786) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Dutchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. [book]. London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 65 [details]

additional source Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
page(s): 102. [details]

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]