African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Punctacteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791)

AfReMaS taxon details

Punctacteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

1662918 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1662918)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Punctacteon Kuroda & T. Habe, 1961

Original name

Voluta flammea Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Actaeon flammea [sic] · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet

Actaeon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Acteon flammea [sic] · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet

Acteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Maxacteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Pupa flammea (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Solidula flammea (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3435 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Punctacteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791). 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://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1662918 on 2026-07-05

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. Punctacteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1662918 on 2026-07-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2023-05-29 08:27:08Z

created

Dekker, Henk

2023-12-28 18:53:37Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

[taxonomic tree] [clear cache]

original description (of ) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3435 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) (from synonym Acteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791))
To Malacopics (Punctacteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791) Mauritius, ex coll. J.G.B. Nieuwenhuis)
To Malacopics (Punctacteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791) Philippines, Mimaropa, Palawan, Balabac Island,...
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Pupa flammea (Gmelin, 1791))

Unreviewed

To Malacopics (Punctacteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791) Mauritius, ex coll. J.G.B. Nieuwenhuis)

Hosted externally

To Malacopics (Punctacteon flammeus (Gmelin, 1791) Philippines, Mimaropa, Palawan, Balabac Island,...

Hosted externally