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Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855
![To GB Mollusca Types (Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Holotype; "not registered, collected 1876 [91]")](https://gbmolluscatypes.ac.uk/biosyb_images/images/0022000_0023999/web/thumbnails/0022140.jpg "To GB Mollusca Types (Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Holotype; \"not registered, collected 1876 [91]\")")
533413 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:533413)
accepted
Species
Cassidaria striata Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior secondary homonym...)
Invalid: junior secondary homonym of Cassis striata J. Sowerby, 1812
Morio (Sconsia) striata (Lamarck, 1816) † · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877 · unaccepted
Sconsia bocasensis Olsson, 1922 † · unaccepted
Sconsia laevigata var. gabbi Olsson, 1922 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Sconsia striata (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted > junior homonym (of Sconsia striata (J. Sowerby,...)
of Sconsia striata (J. Sowerby, 1812)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Adams, A. (1855). Descriptions of thirty-nine new species of shells, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1854) 22: 130-138, pl. 28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747527
page(s): 136-137, pl. 28, fig. 6. [details]
page(s): 136-137, pl. 28, fig. 6. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533413 on 2025-09-10
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original description
Adams, A. (1855). Descriptions of thirty-nine new species of shells, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1854) 22: 130-138, pl. 28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747527
page(s): 136-137, pl. 28, fig. 6. [details]
original description (of Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987) Petuch, E. J. (1987). <i>New Caribbean molluscan faunas</i>. Charlottesville, Virginia: The Coastal Education and Research Foundation. 154 pp., 29 pls; addendum 2 pp., 1 pl. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877) Higgins, H. H. (1877). Mollusca collected during a voyage to the West Indies in the Royal Mersey Steam Yacht "Argo". <em>Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.</em> 31: 409-423, pl. 1., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=xaRbxwEACAAJ&pg=PA410-IA2&hl=fr&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 411, pl. 1 fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Cassidaria striata Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278
page(s): 3 [details]
original description (of Sconsia laevigata var. gabbi Olsson, 1922) Olsson, A. A. (1922). The Miocene of northern Costa Rica with notes on its general stratigraphic relations. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 9(39): 173-481 [1-309], pls 1-32 [4-35]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46040597
page(s): 308, pl. 12 fig. 3 [details]
additional source Beu, A. G. (2010). Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama paleontology projects and uplift of the Central American isthmus. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 377-378: 1-550, pls. 1-79.
page(s): 232 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Verbinnen G., Segers L., Swinnen F., Kreipl K. & Monsecour D. (2016). <i>Cassidae. An amazing family of seashells.</i> Harxheim: ConchBooks. 251 pp. [details]
source of synonymy Beu, A. G. (2008). Recent deep-water Cassidae of the world. A revision of Galeodea, Oocorys, Sconsia, Echinophoria and related taxa, with new genera and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). In: Héros, V. et al. (eds) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, vol. 25. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 196: 269-387. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 325 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 136-137, pl. 28, fig. 6. [details]
original description (of Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987) Petuch, E. J. (1987). <i>New Caribbean molluscan faunas</i>. Charlottesville, Virginia: The Coastal Education and Research Foundation. 154 pp., 29 pls; addendum 2 pp., 1 pl. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877) Higgins, H. H. (1877). Mollusca collected during a voyage to the West Indies in the Royal Mersey Steam Yacht "Argo". <em>Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.</em> 31: 409-423, pl. 1., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=xaRbxwEACAAJ&pg=PA410-IA2&hl=fr&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 411, pl. 1 fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Cassidaria striata Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278
page(s): 3 [details]
original description (of Sconsia laevigata var. gabbi Olsson, 1922) Olsson, A. A. (1922). The Miocene of northern Costa Rica with notes on its general stratigraphic relations. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 9(39): 173-481 [1-309], pls 1-32 [4-35]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46040597
page(s): 308, pl. 12 fig. 3 [details]
additional source Beu, A. G. (2010). Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama paleontology projects and uplift of the Central American isthmus. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 377-378: 1-550, pls. 1-79.
page(s): 232 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Verbinnen G., Segers L., Swinnen F., Kreipl K. & Monsecour D. (2016). <i>Cassidae. An amazing family of seashells.</i> Harxheim: ConchBooks. 251 pp. [details]
source of synonymy Beu, A. G. (2008). Recent deep-water Cassidae of the world. A revision of Galeodea, Oocorys, Sconsia, Echinophoria and related taxa, with new genera and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). In: Héros, V. et al. (eds) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, vol. 25. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 196: 269-387. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 325 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Conchology (Sconsia grayi)
To GB Mollusca Types (Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Holotype; "not registered, collected 1876 [91]") (from synonym Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877)
To Malacopics (Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bonaire, Bonaire Basin, off Puerto Cabello, by research boat, at 100-150 m depth, collected 1965-06-00, ex coll. J.G.B. N...
To Malacopics (Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sconsia lindae Holotype USNM 784457) (from synonym Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987)
To GB Mollusca Types (Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Holotype; "not registered, collected 1876 [91]") (from synonym Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877)
To Malacopics (Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bonaire, Bonaire Basin, off Puerto Cabello, by research boat, at 100-150 m depth, collected 1965-06-00, ex coll. J.G.B. N...
To Malacopics (Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sconsia lindae Holotype USNM 784457) (from synonym Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987)
