WoRMS name details

Cerithium heteroclites Lamarck, 1822

473154  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:473154)

 unaccepted (uncertain synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième. Paris: published by the Author, 711 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 74 [details]   
Status An early available name may be Cerithium heteroclites Lamarck, 1822. A shell in the Geneva Natural History Museum, reputed...  
Status An early available name may be Cerithium heteroclites Lamarck, 1822. A shell in the Geneva Natural History Museum, reputed to be the holotype of this species (Figure 14IK), has a label written in Lamarck's hand citing New Holland (Australia) as a locality. However, the specimen is difficult to attribute to any known species because it is badly
deformed, especially on the body whorl. It is probably Cerithium atratum Born, a western Atlantic species, but it may also be a deformed specimen of Cerithium zonatum (Wood), which fits the cited locality. For this reason, it is cited as a synonym of Cerithium zonatum with a query. If it is shown that this specimen is truly conspecific with C. zonatum, the name heteroclites has priority. (Houbrick 1992) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Cerithium heteroclites Lamarck, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=473154 on 2024-03-19
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original description Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième. Paris: published by the Author, 711 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 74 [details]   

source of synonymy Houbrick, R. S. (1992). Monograph of the genus <i>Cerithium</i> Bruguière in the Indo-Pacific (Cerithiidae: Prosobranchia). <em>Smithsonian Contributions to Zoology.</em> 510: 1-211., available online at https://repository.si.edu/handle/10088/5554
page(s): 197 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
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Status An early available name may be Cerithium heteroclites Lamarck, 1822. A shell in the Geneva Natural History Museum, reputed to be the holotype of this species (Figure 14IK), has a label written in Lamarck's hand citing New Holland (Australia) as a locality. However, the specimen is difficult to attribute to any known species because it is badly
deformed, especially on the body whorl. It is probably Cerithium atratum Born, a western Atlantic species, but it may also be a deformed specimen of Cerithium zonatum (Wood), which fits the cited locality. For this reason, it is cited as a synonym of Cerithium zonatum with a query. If it is shown that this specimen is truly conspecific with C. zonatum, the name heteroclites has priority. (Houbrick 1992) [details]