MolluscaBase - Epitonium perplexum (Pease, 1868)

MolluscaBase name details

Epitonium perplexum (Pease, 1868)

AphiaID

524508 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:524508)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Gyroscala lamellosa (Lamarck, 1822) accepted as Gyroscala commutata (Monterosato, 1877)

Rank

Species

Parent

Epitonium Röding, 1798

Original name

Scalaria perplexa Pease, 1868

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Scalaria perplexa Pease, 1868) Pease, W. H. (1868). Description of sixty-five new species of marine Gastropodae, inhabiting Polynesia. <em>American Journal of Conchology.</em> 3(4): 271-297, pls 23-24. [published 2 April 1868]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6659055
page(s): 288 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Epitonium perplexum (Pease, 1868). Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=524508 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-09-17 15:15:20Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2018-01-06 09:32:24Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Scalaria perplexa Pease, 1868) Pease, W. H. (1868). Description of sixty-five new species of marine Gastropodae, inhabiting Polynesia. <em>American Journal of Conchology.</em> 3(4): 271-297, pls 23-24. [published 2 April 1868]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6659055
page(s): 288 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection