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Bullia digitalis (Dillwyn, 1817) 
AphiaID: 225370

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Buccinoidea (Superfamily) > Nassariidae (Family) > Bullia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Bullia Gray, 1833
Synonymised
taxa
  Buccinum achatinum Lamarck, 1816
Buccinum digitale Dillwyn, 1817 (original combination)
Buccinum elongatulum Anton, 1838
Bullia (Bullia) digitalis (Dillwyn, 1817)
Bullia almo Bartsch, 1915
Bullia capensis Euthyme, 1885
Bullia dulcis G. B. Sowerby III, 1921
Bullia semiflammea Reeve, 1846
Bullia semiusta Reeve, 1846
Bullia soluta Turton, 1932
Bullia sulcata Reeve, 1846
Leiodomus quoyii Swainson, 1840
Sources  basis of record: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

basis of record: Cernohorsky W. O. (1984). Systematics of the family Nassariidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Bulletin of the Auckland Institute and Museum 14: 1-356. [details]

from synonym: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details] [view taxon]

identification resource: Marais J.P. & Kilburn R.N. (2010) Nassariidae. Pp. 138-173, in: Marais A.P. & Seccombe A.D. (eds), Identification guide to the seashells of South Africa. Volume 1. Groenkloof: Centre for Molluscan Studies. 376 pp. [details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English finger plough shell  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution East Coast of South Africa [details]
Namibia [details]
Links To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Bullia digitalis
Bullia digitalis
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:225370
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2006-03-21 08:10:26Z  created  Wambiji, Nina
2010-12-08 19:39:29Z  changed  Gofas, Serge
2011-03-07 12:11:24Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2011-07-09 07:49:27Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Bullia digitalis (Dillwyn, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=225370 on 2013-05-21
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