WoRMS taxon details
Prisogaster niger (W. Wood, 1828)
413385 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:413385)
accepted
Species
Trochus rouaultii Hupé, 1854 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (Prisogaster niger (partim);...)
Prisogaster niger (partim); Chlorostoma atra (partim)
Turbo niger W. Wood, 1828 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Turbo niger W. Wood, 1828) Hupé L.H. (1854). Fauna Chilena. Moluscos, pp. 1-407, <i>In:</i> Gay, C. (1854). Historia física y política de Chile según documentos adquiridos en esta Republica durante doce años de residencia en ella y publicada bajo los auspicios del Supremo Gobierno. Zoología, Tomo 8. Paris, published by the author, and Santiago de Chile, Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16153144
page(s): 140 [details]
(of Turbo niger W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 18, pl. 6, fig. 1 [details]
page(s): 140 [details]
(of Turbo niger W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 18, pl. 6, fig. 1 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Prisogaster niger (W. Wood, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413385 on 2025-04-02
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Turbo niger W. Wood, 1828) Hupé L.H. (1854). Fauna Chilena. Moluscos, pp. 1-407, <i>In:</i> Gay, C. (1854). Historia física y política de Chile según documentos adquiridos en esta Republica durante doce años de residencia en ella y publicada bajo los auspicios del Supremo Gobierno. Zoología, Tomo 8. Paris, published by the author, and Santiago de Chile, Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16153144
page(s): 140 [details]
original description (of Turbo niger W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 18, pl. 6, fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Trochus rouaultii Hupé, 1854) Hupé L.H. (1854). Fauna Chilena. Moluscos, pp. 1-407, <i>In:</i> Gay, C. (1854). Historia física y política de Chile según documentos adquiridos en esta Republica durante doce años de residencia en ella y publicada bajo los auspicios del Supremo Gobierno. Zoología, Tomo 8. Paris, published by the author, and Santiago de Chile, Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16153144
page(s): 148–149 [details]
basis of record Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592., available online at http://, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00854.x [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 140 [details]
original description (of Turbo niger W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 18, pl. 6, fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Trochus rouaultii Hupé, 1854) Hupé L.H. (1854). Fauna Chilena. Moluscos, pp. 1-407, <i>In:</i> Gay, C. (1854). Historia física y política de Chile según documentos adquiridos en esta Republica durante doce años de residencia en ella y publicada bajo los auspicios del Supremo Gobierno. Zoología, Tomo 8. Paris, published by the author, and Santiago de Chile, Museo de Historia Natural de Santiago. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16153144
page(s): 148–149 [details]
basis of record Williams, S.T. (2007). Origins and diversification of Indo-West Pacific marine fauna: evolutionary history and biogeography of turban shells (Gastropoda, Turbinidae). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2007, 92, 573–592., available online at http://, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-8312.2007.00854.x [details] Available for editors

Identification resource
identification resource
Alf A. & Kreipl K. (2011) The family Turbinidae. Subfamilies Turbininae Rafinesque, 1815 and Prisogasterinae Hickman & McLean, 1990. In: G.T. Poppe & K. Groh (eds), <i>A Conchological Iconography</i>. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. pp. 1-82, pls 104-245. [details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. <em>Revista de Biologia Tropical.</em> 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Nielsen, S. N. (2013). A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile. <em>Paläontologische Zeitschrift Springer.</em> 87: 33-66., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-012-0146-0
page(s): 37, fig. 2k-l; note: Pliocene fossils [details] Available for editors
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additional source DeVries, T. J. (2006). The Neogene history of Prisogaster Mörch, 1850 (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) in South America. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 120 (4): 139-149.
note: fossil record [details] Available for editors
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additional source Nielsen, S. N. (2013). A new Pliocene mollusk fauna from Mejillones, northern Chile. <em>Paläontologische Zeitschrift Springer.</em> 87: 33-66., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s12542-012-0146-0
page(s): 37, fig. 2k-l; note: Pliocene fossils [details] Available for editors

additional source DeVries, T. J. (2006). The Neogene history of Prisogaster Mörch, 1850 (Gastropoda: Turbinidae) in South America. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 120 (4): 139-149.
note: fossil record [details] Available for editors






Nontype MNHNC SGO.PI.6505, geounit Chile [details]
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Conchology (Prisogaster niger)
To Conchology (Prisogaster niger)
To Conchology (Prisogaster niger)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prisogaster niger)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Turbo niger W. Wood, 1828)
To Malacopics (Prisogaster niger (W. Wood, 1828) Chile, Bío-Bío, Talcahuano, collected October 197...
To MNHN Fossil collection (Trochus rouaultii HUPÉ, 1854; Syntype; F.A28648) (from synonym Trochus rouaultii Hupé, 1854)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Prisogaster niger (1) 753430)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications)
To Conchology (Prisogaster niger)
To Conchology (Prisogaster niger)
To Conchology (Prisogaster niger)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Prisogaster niger)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Turbo niger W. Wood, 1828)
To Malacopics (Prisogaster niger (W. Wood, 1828) Chile, Bío-Bío, Talcahuano, collected October 197...
To MNHN Fossil collection (Trochus rouaultii HUPÉ, 1854; Syntype; F.A28648) (from synonym Trochus rouaultii Hupé, 1854)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Prisogaster niger (1) 753430)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection