WoRMS name details
Valvatella J. E. Gray, 1857
548887 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:548887)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
Trochus groenlandicus Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Margarites groenlandicus (Gmelin, 1791) (type by monotypy)
- Species Valvatella albolineata E. A. Smith, 1899 accepted as Margarites albolineatus (E. A. Smith, 1899) (original combination)
- Species Valvatella antarctica (E. Lamy, 1906) accepted as Margarella antarctica (E. Lamy, 1906)
- Species Valvatella beringensis E. A. Smith, 1899 accepted as Margarites helicinus (Phipps, 1774)
- Species Valvatella crebrilirulata E. A. Smith, 1907 accepted as Margarella crebrilirulata (E. A. Smith, 1907) (original combination)
- Species Valvatella dulcis E. A. Smith, 1907 accepted as Antimargarita dulcis (E. A. Smith, 1907) (original combination)
- Species Valvatella minutissima E. A. Smith, 1907 accepted as Lissotesta minutissima (E. A. Smith, 1907) (original combination)
- Species Valvatella refulgens E. A. Smith, 1907 accepted as Margarella refulgens (E. A. Smith, 1907) (original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Gray, J. E. (1857). <i>Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum</i>. Part I. [Gastropoda]. British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp. [9 May; Preface dated 10 Dec. 1856]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/117528
page(s): 157 [details]
page(s): 157 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Valvatella J. E. Gray, 1857. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=548887 on 2025-05-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Gray, J. E. (1857). <i>Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum</i>. Part I. [Gastropoda]. British Museum, London, xii + 230 pp. [9 May; Preface dated 10 Dec. 1856]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/117528
page(s): 157 [details]
page(s): 157 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Galkin, Yu. I. (1955). Bryukhonogiye mollyuski trokhidy dal'nevostochnykh i severnykh morey SSSR (Semeystvo Trochidae) / Брюхоногие моллюски трохиды дальневосточных и северных морей СССР (Семейство Trochidae) / Gastropod molluscs trochids of Far Eastern and northern seas of the USSR (Family Trochidae). <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSSR.</em> 57: 1-131 (in Russian)., available online at http://ashipunov.me/shipunov/school/books/galkin1955_trochidy_sssr.djvu
page(s): 73 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 73 [details] Available for editors
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Authority The name is sometimes attributed in error to E.A. Smith, 1899 [Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 3(4): 205], who used Valvatella without author and date, but referred to a paper by Melvill, who used Valvatella Gray, 1857 [details]
