African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS name details

Prosobranchia

AphiaID

102 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:102)

Classification

Authority

Milne Edwards, 1848

Status

alternative representation (unaccepted as paraphyletic taxon)

Rank

Subclass

Parent

Gastropoda

Direct children (2)

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Order Archaeogastropoda accepted as Vetigastropoda (unaccepted as paraphyletic taxon)
Order Mesogastropoda

Environment

marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial

Original description

Milne Edwards, H. (1848). Note sur la classification naturelle des mollusques gastéropodes. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie.</em> ser. 3, 9: 102-112., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14490881
page(s): 109 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Prosobranchia. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102 on 2026-02-13

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Prosobranchia. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=102 on 2026-02-13

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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2009-03-27 17:40:10Z

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original description Milne Edwards, H. (1848). Note sur la classification naturelle des mollusques gastéropodes. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, Zoologie.</em> ser. 3, 9: 102-112., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14490881
page(s): 109 [details]

context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]

basis of record Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source An outline for the classification of Phylum Mollusca in taxonomic databases [report elaborated by WoRMS editors for internal use, june 2010] [details]

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