WoRMS taxon details

Colpospira atkinsoni (Tate & May, 1900)

446504  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:446504)

accepted
Species
Turritella atkinsoni Tate & May, 1900 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Turritella tasmanica Tenison Woods, 1877 · unaccepted (Junior Primary Homonym of...)  
Junior Primary Homonym of Turritella tasmanica Reeve, 1849
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Turritella atkinsoni Tate & May, 1900) Tate, R.; May, W. L. (1900). Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 24(2): 90-103., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36939623
page(s): 95 [details]   
Nomenclature Tate & May (1900:95) introduced the name Turritella atkinsoni with the meaning to replace Turritella tasmanica Tenison...  
Nomenclature Tate & May (1900:95) introduced the name Turritella atkinsoni with the meaning to replace Turritella tasmanica Tenison woods, 1876 which is pre-occupied by Reeve, 1849. Tenison-woods had initially attributed that name to a tertiary fossil, yet at the time of the actual description, he used it for a recent marine species. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Colpospira atkinsoni (Tate & May, 1900). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=446504 on 2024-04-20
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2010-01-09 14:33:51Z
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2013-05-31 05:35:14Z
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2023-03-05 01:36:23Z
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original description  (of Turritella tasmanica Tenison Woods, 1877) Tenison Woods, J. E. (1877). On some new Tasmanian marine shells. (Second series). <em>Papers and Proceedings and Report of the Royal Society of Tasmania.</em> 1876: 131-159., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12289352
page(s): 140 [details]   

original description  (of Turritella atkinsoni Tate & May, 1900) Tate, R.; May, W. L. (1900). Descriptions of new genera and species of Australian Mollusca (chiefly Tasmanian). <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 24(2): 90-103., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36939623
page(s): 95 [details]   

original description  (of Turritella (Colpospira) godeffroyana J. Donald, 1900) Donald, J. (1900). On some recent Gastropoda referred to the family Turritellidae and their supposed relationship to the Murchisoniidae. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 4: 47-55.
page(s): 53 [details]   

original description  (of Turritella atkinsoni var. medioangulata Verco, 1910) Verco, J.C. (1910) Notes on South Australian Marine Mollusca, with Descriptions of New Species. - Part XIII. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 34:115-145, Pls 29-30.
page(s): 125-126 [details]   

basis of record Garrard, 1972, J. Malac. Soc. Aust. 4 [details]   

additional source Grove, S. 2011. The Seashells of Tasmania: A Comprehensive Guide. Taroona, Australia: Taroona Publications. [vi], 81.
page(s): 38 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Nomenclature Tate & May (1900:95) introduced the name Turritella atkinsoni with the meaning to replace Turritella tasmanica Tenison woods, 1876 which is pre-occupied by Reeve, 1849. Tenison-woods had initially attributed that name to a tertiary fossil, yet at the time of the actual description, he used it for a recent marine species. [details]