WoRMS name details
Aclesia africana Engel, 1926
747328 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:747328)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
Aclesia Rang, 1828 accepted as Bursatella Blainville, 1817
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent only
Engel H. (1926). Drei neue Arten der Gattung Aclesia (Rang) Bergh, 1902. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 69: 180-187.
page(s): 180–184, figs 11–14 [details]
page(s): 180–184, figs 11–14 [details]
Type locality contained in South African Coast
type locality contained in South African Coast [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aclesia africana Engel, 1926. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=747328 on 2025-04-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Engel H. (1926). Drei neue Arten der Gattung Aclesia (Rang) Bergh, 1902. Zoologischer Anzeiger. 69: 180-187.
page(s): 180–184, figs 11–14 [details]
page(s): 180–184, figs 11–14 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Bazzicalupo, E., Crocetta, F., Gosliner, T. M., Berteaux-Lecellier, V., Camacho-García, Y. E., Chandran, B. K. S. & Valdés, Á. (2020). Molecular and morphological systematics of Bursatella leachii de Blainville, 1817 and Stylocheilus striatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 reveal cryptic diversity in pantropically distributed taxa (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Heterobranchia). Invertebrate Systematics. 34: 535-568., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is19056
page(s): 543 [details]
page(s): 543 [details]





- Type locality
- type locality contained in South African Coast [details]