MolluscaBase - Electra Albers, 1850

AphiaID

998622 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:998622)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym (Invalid: junior homonym of Electra Lamouroux, 1816)

Accepted name

Glessula E. von Martens, 1860

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Achatina ceylanica L. Pfeiffer, 1845 accepted as Glessula ceylanica (L. Pfeiffer, 1845) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Glessulinae Godwin-Austen, 1920

Original name

Achatina (Electra) Albers, 1850

Synonymised names

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Fossil range

recent only

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

(of Achatina (Electra) Albers, 1850) Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. <em>Berlin: Enslin.</em> 262 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11965983
page(s): 194 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Electra Albers, 1850. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=998622 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2017-06-19 13:01:19Z

created

2023-03-04 17:36:17Z

changed

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description (of Achatina (Electra) Albers, 1850) Albers, J. C. (1850). Die Heliceen nach natürlicher Verwandtschaft systematisch geordnet. <em>Berlin: Enslin.</em> 262 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11965983
page(s): 194 [details]