African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Pleurotomoides Bronn, 1831

AphiaID

205441 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205441)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Clathurellidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858

Original name

Pleurotoma (Pleurotomoides) Bronn, 1831 †

Synonymised names

Comarmondia Monterosato, 1884 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Defrancia Millet, 1827 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of...)

Invalid: junior homonym of Defrancia Bronn, 1825 [Bryozoa]; Pleurotomoides and Lora are replacement names

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Species Pleurotomoides gracilis (Montagu, 1803)
Species Pleurotomoides tessellata (Hinds, 1843) accepted as Kermidaphnella tessellata (Hinds, 1843) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Pleurotomoides thespesia (Melvill & Standen, 1896) accepted as Kermidaphnella thespesia (Melvill & Standen, 1896) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

(of ) Bronn, H. G. (1831). Italiens Tertiär-Gebilde und deren organische Einschlüsse. Karl Groos, Heidelberg, xii + 176 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39170083
page(s): 47 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pleurotomoides Bronn, 1831. 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=205441 on 2026-07-11

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. Pleurotomoides Bronn, 1831. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205441 on 2026-07-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-12-26 16:08:30Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-27 07:06:07Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2009-12-02 08:40:23Z

changed

Tucker, John

2018-01-16 17:18:34Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-01-17 04:07:41Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-04-25 20:54:11Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2020-11-05 15:45:50Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2022-12-25 20:23:31Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Comarmondia Monterosato, 1884) Monterosato, T. A. di. (1884). Nomenclatura generica e specifica di alcune conchiglie mediterranee. Virzi, printed for the author, Palermo, 152 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/109711 [details]

original description (of Defrancia Millet, 1827) Millet, P. A. (1827). Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de coquilles de la familie des Zoophages. Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Paris. 5: 437-441, pl. 9., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3860698
page(s): 437 [details]

original description (of ) Bronn, H. G. (1831). Italiens Tertiär-Gebilde und deren organische Einschlüsse. Karl Groos, Heidelberg, xii + 176 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39170083
page(s): 47 [details]

basis of record Landau, B. & Harzhauser, M. (2022). The Pliocene Gastropoda (Mollusca) of Estepona, southern Spain. Part 15: Borsoniidae, Clathurellidae, Mitromorphidae, Pseudomelatomidae (Gastropoda, Conoidea). Cainozoic Research. 22(2): 103-156., available online at https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1020186/CR2022022002001-.pdf
page(s): 129 [details]

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Comarmondia) (from synonym Comarmondia Monterosato, 1884)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pleurotomoides)
To Genbank (from synonym Comarmondia Monterosato, 1884)
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