African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Lyria africana (Reeve, 1856)

MolluscaBase name details

Lyria africana (Reeve, 1856)

AphiaID

605327 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:605327)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted Name

Festilyria africana (Reeve, 1856) accepted as Callipara africana (Reeve, 1856)

Rank

Species

Parent

Lyria J. E. Gray, 1847

Orig. name

Voluta africana Reeve, 1856

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Voluta africana Reeve, 1856) Reeve, L. A. (1856). Description of three new volutes from the collections of the Hon. Mrs. Cathcart and Mr. Cuming. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 24: 2-3, pl. 33 [16 June 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860508 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Lyria africana (Reeve, 1856). Accessed at: http://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=605327 on 2024-07-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2012-07-04 18:46:28Z

created

Rosenberg, Gary

Licensing

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original description (of Voluta africana Reeve, 1856) Reeve, L. A. (1856). Description of three new volutes from the collections of the Hon. Mrs. Cathcart and Mr. Cuming. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 24: 2-3, pl. 33 [16 June 1856]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12860508 [details]

basis of record Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 110 [details]

new combination reference Kilburn, R. N. 1971. Notes on some deep-water Volutidae, Turbinellidae and Turridae chiefly from off southern Mocambique and Natal, with descriptions of two new species (Mollusca: Gastropoda). Annals of the Natal Museum, 21(1):123-133.
page(s): 125 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality