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Tectarius Valenciennes, 1832
204037 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204037)
accepted
Genus
Tectarius coronatus Valenciennes, 1832 (type by monotypy)
Cidaris Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of...)
Invalid: junior homonym of Cidaris Leske, 1778 [Echinodermata]
Echinella Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of...)
Invalid: junior homonym of Echinella Bory de St Vincent, 1824; Echinellopsis is a replacement name
Echinellopsis Rovereto, 1899 · unaccepted
Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942 · unaccepted
Echininus (Tectininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942 · unaccepted
Littorina (Tectarius) Valenciennes, 1832 · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Monodonta (Echinella) Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted
Nina Gray, 1850 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of Nina...)
Invalid: junior homonym of Nina Horsfield, 1829 [Lepidoptera]; Echininus is a replacement name
Pagodus Gray, 1839 · unaccepted
Tectaria · unaccepted (misspelling)
Tectarium P. Fischer, 1885 · unaccepted (unjustified emendation)
Tectarium (Echinella) Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted
Tectarius (Echininiopsis) D. Reid, 1989 · alternative representation
Tectarius (Echininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942 · alternative representation
Tectarius (Liralittorina) Rosewater, 1981 · alternative representation
Tectarius (Subditotectarius) Ladd, 1966 † · alternative representation
Tectarius (Tectarius) Valenciennes, 1832 · alternative representation
Tectarius (Tectininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942 · unaccepted
Tectininus Clench & Abbott, 1942 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Trochus (Pagodella) Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted
- Species Tectarius adelaidensis (Cotton, 1947) †
- Species Tectarius antonii (R. A. Philippi, 1846)
- Species Tectarius coronatus Valenciennes, 1832
- Species Tectarius cumingii (R. A. Philippi, 1846)
- Species Tectarius grandinatus (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Tectarius isletaensis Vera-Peláez, 2018 †
- Species Tectarius niuensis D. Reid & Geller, 1997
- Species Tectarius padmiae Dekkers & Ngo, 2021
- Species Tectarius pagodus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Tectarius rehderi Ladd, 1966 †
- Species Tectarius rusticus (R. A. Philippi, 1846)
- Species Tectarius spinulosus (R. A. Philippi, 1847)
- Species Tectarius striatus (P. P. King, 1832)
- Species Tectarius tectumpersicum (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Tectarius viviparus (Rosewater, 1982)
- Subgenus Tectarius (Tectininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942 accepted as Tectarius Valenciennes, 1832
- Species Tectarius bullatus (Martyn, 1784) accepted as Tectarius grandinatus (Gmelin, 1791) (Martyn, 1784 is a work rejected for nomenclatorial purposes (see ICZN opinions 456 and 479))
- Species Tectarius feejeensis (Reeve, 1857) accepted as Echinolittorina feejeensis (Reeve, 1857) (superseded combination)
- Species Tectarius granosus (R. A. Philippi, 1845) accepted as Echinolittorina granosa (R. A. Philippi, 1845) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Tectarius leucostictus (R. A. Philippi, 1847) accepted as Echinolittorina leucosticta (R. A. Philippi, 1847) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Tectarius luteus A. Gould, 1861 accepted as Plesiotrochus luteus (A. Gould, 1861) (superseded combination)
- Species Tectarius miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1832) accepted as Echinolittorina miliaris (Quoy & Gaimard, 1833) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Tectarius muricatus (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Cenchritis muricatus (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Tectarius pygmaeus (Hornung, 1920) † accepted as Tectarius striatus (P. P. King, 1832) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Subgenus Tectarius (Echininiopsis) D. Reid, 1989 represented as Tectarius Valenciennes, 1832
- Species Tectarius (Echininiopsis) niuensis D. Reid & Geller, 1997 represented as Tectarius niuensis D. Reid & Geller, 1997
- Species Tectarius (Echininiopsis) viviparus (Rosewater, 1982) represented as Tectarius viviparus (Rosewater, 1982)
- Subgenus Tectarius (Echininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942 represented as Tectarius Valenciennes, 1832
- Species Tectarius (Echininus) viviparus Rosewater, 1982 accepted as Tectarius viviparus (Rosewater, 1982)
- Subgenus Tectarius (Liralittorina) Rosewater, 1981 represented as Tectarius Valenciennes, 1832
- Species Tectarius (Liralittorina) pygmaeus (Hornung, 1920) † accepted as Tectarius striatus (P. P. King, 1832) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Tectarius (Liralittorina) striatus (P. P. King, 1832) represented as Tectarius striatus (P. P. King, 1832)
- Subgenus Tectarius (Subditotectarius) Ladd, 1966 † represented as Tectarius Valenciennes, 1832
- Species Tectarius (Subditotectarius) rehderi Ladd, 1966 † represented as Tectarius rehderi Ladd, 1966 †
- Subgenus Tectarius (Tectarius) Valenciennes, 1832 represented as Tectarius Valenciennes, 1832
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
masculine
Valenciennes, A. (1832). Coquilles univalves marines de l'Amérique équinoxiale, recueillies pendant le voyage de MM. A. de Humboldt et A. Bonpland. <em>In: Humboldt, A. von & Bonpland, A. (Eds), Recueil d'observations de zoologie et d'anatomie comparée: faites dans l'océan atlantique, dans l'intérieur du nouveau continent et dans la mer du sud pendant les années 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 et 1803.</em> Vol. 2: 262-339, pl. 57. Paris, J. Smith, and Gide., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30021592
page(s): 271 [details]
page(s): 271 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tectarius Valenciennes, 1832. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204037 on 2025-07-06
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original description
Valenciennes, A. (1832). Coquilles univalves marines de l'Amérique équinoxiale, recueillies pendant le voyage de MM. A. de Humboldt et A. Bonpland. <em>In: Humboldt, A. von & Bonpland, A. (Eds), Recueil d'observations de zoologie et d'anatomie comparée: faites dans l'océan atlantique, dans l'intérieur du nouveau continent et dans la mer du sud pendant les années 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802 et 1803.</em> Vol. 2: 262-339, pl. 57. Paris, J. Smith, and Gide., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30021592
page(s): 271 [details]
original description (of Tectarius (Liralittorina) Rosewater, 1981) Rosewater, J. (1981). The family Littorinidae in tropical West Africa. <em>Atlantide Report.</em> 13: 7-48.
page(s): 36 [details]
original description (of Tectarius (Echininiopsis) D. Reid, 1989) Reid, D. G. (1989). The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.</em> 324: 1-110., available online at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1989.0040
page(s): 95 [details]
original description (of Echinellopsis Rovereto, 1899) Rovereto G. (1899). Prime ricerche sinonimiche sui generi dei Gasteropodi. <i>Atti della Società Ligustica di Scienze Naturale e Geografiche, Genova 10</i>: 101-110
page(s): 109 [details]
original description (of Cidaris Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 84 [details]
original description (of Pagodus Gray, 1839) Gray, J. E. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1839). Molluscous animals and their shells. Pp. 103-155, pls 33-34 [pp. 103-142 by J. E. Gray, 143-155 by G. B. Sowerby I]. In: <i>The zoology of Capt. Beechey's voyage, compiled from the collections on notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's straits in his Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28.</i> London pp. XII + 186 + 44 pl. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48931613
page(s): 141 [details]
original description (of Trochus (Pagodella) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 207, 219, 351 [details]
original description (of Nina Gray, 1850) Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., <i>Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors</i>. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632090 [details]
original description (of Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942) Clench, W. J. & Abbott, R. T. (1942). The genera <i>Tectarius</i> and <i>Echininus</i> in the western Atlantic. <em>Johnsonia.</em> 1(4): 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41113887 [details]
original description (of Monodonta (Echinella) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 207, 221, 352 [details]
original description (of Tectarius (Subditotectarius) Ladd, 1966 †) Ladd, H. S. (1966). Chitons and gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from the western Pacific Ocean. <em>Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 531: ii + 98 pp., 16 pls.
page(s): 59 [details] Available for editors
[request]
original description (of Echininus (Tectininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942) Clench, W. J. & Abbott, R. T. (1942). The genera <i>Tectarius</i> and <i>Echininus</i> in the western Atlantic. <em>Johnsonia.</em> 1(4): 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41113887
page(s): 4 [details]
basis of record Reid D.G. & Geller J.B. (1997). A new ovoviviparious species of Tectarius (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) from Niue, South Pacific, with a molecular phylogeny of the genus. Journal of Molluscan Studies 63:207-233. [details]
page(s): 271 [details]
original description (of Tectarius (Liralittorina) Rosewater, 1981) Rosewater, J. (1981). The family Littorinidae in tropical West Africa. <em>Atlantide Report.</em> 13: 7-48.
page(s): 36 [details]
original description (of Tectarius (Echininiopsis) D. Reid, 1989) Reid, D. G. (1989). The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.</em> 324: 1-110., available online at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1989.0040
page(s): 95 [details]
original description (of Echinellopsis Rovereto, 1899) Rovereto G. (1899). Prime ricerche sinonimiche sui generi dei Gasteropodi. <i>Atti della Società Ligustica di Scienze Naturale e Geografiche, Genova 10</i>: 101-110
page(s): 109 [details]
original description (of Cidaris Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 84 [details]
original description (of Pagodus Gray, 1839) Gray, J. E. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1839). Molluscous animals and their shells. Pp. 103-155, pls 33-34 [pp. 103-142 by J. E. Gray, 143-155 by G. B. Sowerby I]. In: <i>The zoology of Capt. Beechey's voyage, compiled from the collections on notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's straits in his Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28.</i> London pp. XII + 186 + 44 pl. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48931613
page(s): 141 [details]
original description (of Trochus (Pagodella) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 207, 219, 351 [details]
original description (of Nina Gray, 1850) Gray, J. E. (1850). [text]. In: Gray, M. E., <i>Figures of molluscous animals, selected from various authors</i>. Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. Vol. 4, iv + 219 pp. (August) [Frontispiece (portrait of Mrs. Gray); pp. ii–iv (preface); 1–62 (explanation of plates 1–312 in Volumes 1–3); pp. 63–124 (systematic arrangement of figures); 127–219 (reprint of Gray 1847). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11632090 [details]
original description (of Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942) Clench, W. J. & Abbott, R. T. (1942). The genera <i>Tectarius</i> and <i>Echininus</i> in the western Atlantic. <em>Johnsonia.</em> 1(4): 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41113887 [details]
original description (of Monodonta (Echinella) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 207, 221, 352 [details]
original description (of Tectarius (Subditotectarius) Ladd, 1966 †) Ladd, H. S. (1966). Chitons and gastropods (Haliotidae through Adeorbidae) from the western Pacific Ocean. <em>Geological Survey Professional Paper.</em> 531: ii + 98 pp., 16 pls.
page(s): 59 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Echininus (Tectininus) Clench & Abbott, 1942) Clench, W. J. & Abbott, R. T. (1942). The genera <i>Tectarius</i> and <i>Echininus</i> in the western Atlantic. <em>Johnsonia.</em> 1(4): 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41113887
page(s): 4 [details]
basis of record Reid D.G. & Geller J.B. (1997). A new ovoviviparious species of Tectarius (Gastropoda: Littorinidae) from Niue, South Pacific, with a molecular phylogeny of the genus. Journal of Molluscan Studies 63:207-233. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cidaris) (from synonym Cidaris Röding, 1798)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echininus) (from synonym Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tectaria) (from synonym Tectaria)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tectarius)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942)
To ITIS
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Echininus) (from synonym Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tectaria) (from synonym Tectaria)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Tectarius)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Echininus Clench & Abbott, 1942)
To ITIS
