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NSBP taxon details

Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758)

Picture of Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus,1758)

AphiaID

138920 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138920)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Neptunea Röding, 1798

Original name

Murex antiquus Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 754 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Rees, H.; Cochrane, S.J.; Craeymeersch, J.A.; de Kluijver, M.; Degraer, S.; Desroy, N.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Duineveld, G.; Essink, K.; Hillewaert, H.; Kilbride, R.; Kröncke, I.; Nehmer, P.; Rachor, E.; Reiss, H.; Robertson, M.; Rumohr, H.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Van Hoey, G. (Eds.) (2021) North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP) at: http://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/nsbp/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138920 on 2025-07-13

Thematic species database citation

Rees, H.; Cochrane, S.J.; Craeymeersch, J.A.; de Kluijver, M.; Degraer, S.; Desroy, N.; Dewarumez, J.-M.; Duineveld, G.; Essink, K.; Hillewaert, H.; Kilbride, R.; Kröncke, I.; Nehmer, P.; Rachor, E.; Reiss, H.; Robertson, M.; Rumohr, H.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Van Hoey, G. (Eds.) (2025). North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP). Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/nsbp/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138920 on 2025-07-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2010-07-19 15:09:49Z

checked

Fraussen, Koen

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 754 [details] Available for editors

context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Epibenthos and demersal fish monitoring at long-term monitoring stations in the Belgian part of the North Sea. [details]

basis of record Fraussen K. & Terryn Y. (2007). The family Buccinidae. Genus Neptunea. In: A Conchological Iconography [Directed by Guido T. Poppe & Klaus Groh]. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 159 pp., 154 pls. [details]

additional source Rehder, H. A. (1942). The genotype of Neptunea. The Nautilus. 56(2): 69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8520172 [details]

additional source Pearce, J. B.; Thorson, G. (1967). The feeding and reproductive biology of the red whelk, Neptunea antiqua (L.) (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Ophelia. 4(2): 277-314., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00785326.1967.10409624 [details] Available for editors

additional source Power, A.; Keegan, B. (2001). Seasonal patterns in the reproductive activity of the red whelk, Neptunea antiqua (Mollusca: Prosobranchia) in the Irish Sea. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 81(2): 243-250., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s0025315401003708 [details] Available for editors

additional source Wells JW. (1960). A Pleistocene marine mollusk in central New York. The Nautilus. 74(1): 26-28, pl. 4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8523897
note: As Neptunea sp. cf. N. antiqua (Linn.) [details]