MolluscaBase - Trochus (Aphanotrochus) obscurus W. Wood, 1828

MolluscaBase name details

Trochus (Aphanotrochus) obscurus W. Wood, 1828

AphiaID

573130 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:573130)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted Name

Priotrochus obscurus (W. Wood, 1828)

Rank

Species

Parent

Trochus (Aphanotrochus) E. von Martens, 1880 accepted as Priotrochus P. Fischer, 1879

Original name

Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 17, pl. 5, fig. 26. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Trochus (Aphanotrochus) obscurus W. Wood, 1828. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=573130 on 2025-04-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-05-23 13:43:24Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2012-05-20 17:14:28Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2020-12-18 11:19:35Z

changed

Herbert, David

2022-11-26 18:58:59Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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Sources (3)

original description (of Trochus obscurus W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199
page(s): 17, pl. 5, fig. 26. [details]

basis of record Martens, E. von. (1880). Mollusken. Pp. 179-353, pl. 19-22 In K. Möbius, F. Richters & E. von Martens, Beiträge zur Meeresfauna der Insel Mauritius und der Seychellen. Berlin: Gutmann. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46619856
page(s): 296. [details]

status source Herbert D.G. (1988). Studies on Priotrochus obscurus and the systematics position of Priotrochus (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of zoology 214:561-268. [details]