WoRMS taxon details
Heliconoides A. d'Orbigny, 1835
605964 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:605964)
accepted
Genus
Atlanta (Heliconoides) inflata A. d'Orbigny, 1835 accepted as Heliconoides inflatus (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) (type by subsequent designation)
Atlanta (Heliconoides) A. d'Orbigny, 1836 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Embolus Jeffreys, 1869 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)
invalid: junior homonym of Embolus Selenka, 1867 [Echinodermata]; Polloneria Sulliotti, 1888, is a replacement name
Polloneria Sulliotti, 1888 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)
invalid: junior homonym of Polloneria Sacco, 1886 [land snail]
Protomedea O. G. Costa, 1861 · unaccepted
Skaptotion Curry, 1965 † · unaccepted
- Species Heliconoides atypicus (Laws, 1944) †
- Species Heliconoides auriformis (Curry, 1982) †
- Species Heliconoides bartonensis (Curry, 1965) †
- Species Heliconoides bearnensis (Curry, 1982) †
- Species Heliconoides curryi (A. W. Janssen, 1990) †
- Species Heliconoides daguini A. W. Janssen, 2010 †
- Species Heliconoides dilatata Koenen, 1892 †
- Species Heliconoides ferax (Laws, 1944) †
- Species Heliconoides hodgkinsoni Garvie, 2020 †
- Species Heliconoides hospes (Rolle, 1862) †
- Species Heliconoides inflatus (A. d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Species Heliconoides lillebaeltensis A. W. Janssen, 2007 †
- Species Heliconoides linneensis A. W. Janssen, 2008 †
- Species Heliconoides lunatus (A. W. Janssen, 1990) †
- Species Heliconoides mercinensis (Watelet & Lefèvre, 1885) †
- Species Heliconoides merlei A. W. Janssen, 2010 †
- Species Heliconoides mermuysi A. W. Janssen, 2010 †
- Species Heliconoides nikkieae L. J. Cotton, A. W. Janssen, Pearson & van Driel, 2017 †
- Species Heliconoides nitens (I. Lea, 1833) †
- Species Heliconoides paula (Curry, 1982) †
- Species Heliconoides pyrenaicus A. W. Janssen, 2010 †
- Species Heliconoides sondaari A. W. Janssen, 2007 †
- Species Heliconoides stenzeli (Garvie, 1992) †
- Species Heliconoides tatei (A. W. Janssen, 1990) †
- Species Heliconoides taylori (Curry, 1965) †
- Species Heliconoides tertiarius (Tate, 1887) †
- Species Heliconoides texanus (Garvie & Hodgkinson, 1992) †
- Species Heliconoides vanderweideni A. W. Janssen, 2003 †
- Species Heliconoides vonhachti A. W. Janssen, 2012 †
- Species Heliconoides wardijaensis A. W. Janssen, 2012 †
- Species Heliconoides bulimoides (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) accepted as Limacina bulimoides (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Heliconoides inflata (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) accepted as Heliconoides inflatus (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Heliconoides nemoris (Curry, 1965) † accepted as Limacina nemoris (Curry, 1965) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Heliconoides pyrenaica A. W. Janssen, 2010 † accepted as Heliconoides pyrenaicus A. W. Janssen, 2010 † (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Heliconoides rangii (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) accepted as Limacina rangii (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Heliconoides rotunda (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) accepted as Atlanta rotunda A. d'Orbigny, 1835 accepted as Limacina rangii (A. d'Orbigny, 1835)
- Species Heliconoides trochiformis (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) accepted as Limacina trochiformis (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
masculine
(of Atlanta (Heliconoides) A. d'Orbigny, 1836) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): 139, 174 [1836] [details]
page(s): 139, 174 [1836] [details]
Distribution Tropical and subtropical, worldwide
Fossil range Cretaceous (Campanian) to Recent
Distribution Tropical and subtropical, worldwide [details]
Fossil range Cretaceous (Campanian) to Recent
Fossil range Cretaceous (Campanian) to Recent [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Heliconoides A. d'Orbigny, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=605964 on 2025-03-27
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Atlanta (Heliconoides) A. d'Orbigny, 1836) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): 139, 174 [1836] [details]
original description (of Embolus Jeffreys, 1869) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 5: 114 [details]
original description (of Protomedea O. G. Costa, 1861) Costa, O. G. (1861). Microdoride mediterranea; o, Descrizione de poco ben conosciuti od affatto ignoti viventi minuti e micoscropici del Meditterraneo, pel professore O. G. Costa. Tomo primo. Con tredici tavole. i-xviii, 1-80. Stamperia dell'Iride, Napoli., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47094
page(s): 73 [details]
original description (of Skaptotion Curry, 1965 †) Curry, D. (1965). The English Paleogene pteropods. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 36: 357-371, pls. 16-17.
page(s): 368 [details]
page(s): 139, 174 [1836] [details]
original description (of Embolus Jeffreys, 1869) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 5: 114 [details]
original description (of Protomedea O. G. Costa, 1861) Costa, O. G. (1861). Microdoride mediterranea; o, Descrizione de poco ben conosciuti od affatto ignoti viventi minuti e micoscropici del Meditterraneo, pel professore O. G. Costa. Tomo primo. Con tredici tavole. i-xviii, 1-80. Stamperia dell'Iride, Napoli., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47094
page(s): 73 [details]
original description (of Skaptotion Curry, 1965 †) Curry, D. (1965). The English Paleogene pteropods. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 36: 357-371, pls. 16-17.
page(s): 368 [details]
Other
additional source
Janssen, A. W.; Bush, S. L. & Bednaršek, N. (2019). The shelled pteropods of the northeast Pacific Ocean (Mollusca: Heterobranchia, Pteropoda). <em>Zoosymposia.</em> 13: 305-346. [details]
additional source Janssen, A. W. (2020). Notes on the systematics, morphology and biostratigraphy of holoplanktic Mollusca, 27. Comments on a paper discussing Pteropoda (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) systematics, recently (2019) published in Bollettino Malacologico. <em>Basteria.</em> 84 (1-3): 65-75., available online at https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1001535 [details]
additional source Janssen, A. W. (2020). Notes on the systematics, morphology and biostratigraphy of holoplanktic Mollusca, 27. Comments on a paper discussing Pteropoda (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) systematics, recently (2019) published in Bollettino Malacologico. <em>Basteria.</em> 84 (1-3): 65-75., available online at https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1001535 [details]
From editor or global species database
Distribution Tropical and subtropical, worldwide [details]Fossil range Cretaceous (Campanian) to Recent [details]
Grammatical gender masculine, as determined by ending -oides (ICZN art. 30.1.4.4); the type species was spelled inflata in d'Orbigny (1839) but (1) this is subsequent and (2) Heliconoides is treated as a subgenus of Atlanta, with which the specific epithet in in agreement. [details]
