African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Cancilla Swainson, 1840

AphiaID

205559 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205559)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Imbricariinae Troschel, 1867

Original name

Tiara (Cancilla) Swainson, 1840

Direct children (14)

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Species Cancilla scrobiculata (Brocchi, 1814)
Subgenus Cancilla (Domiporta) Cernohorsky, 1970 accepted as Domiporta Cernohorsky, 1970 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
1. Species Cancilla (Domiporta) carnicolor (Reeve, 1844) accepted as Domiporta carnicolor (Reeve, 1844)
2. Species Cancilla (Domiporta) filaris (Linnaeus, 1771) accepted as Domiporta filaris (Linnaeus, 1771)
3. Species Cancilla (Domiporta) granatina (Lamarck, 1811) accepted as Domiporta granatina (Lamarck, 1811)
4. Species Cancilla (Domiporta) praestantissima (Röding, 1798) accepted as Domiporta praestantissima (Röding, 1798)
5. Species Cancilla (Domiporta) rufilirata (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) accepted as Imbricaria rufilirata (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Species Cancilla aegra (Reeve, 1845) accepted as Nebularia aegra (Reeve, 1845) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Cancilla carnicolor (Reeve, 1844) accepted as Neocancilla carnicolor (Reeve, 1844) accepted as Domiporta carnicolor (Reeve, 1844)
Species Cancilla filaris (Linnaeus, 1771) accepted as Domiporta filaris (Linnaeus, 1771)
Species Cancilla granatina (Lamarck, 1811) accepted as Domiporta granatina (Lamarck, 1811)
Species Cancilla praestantissima (Röding, 1798) accepted as Domiporta praestantissima (Röding, 1798)
Species Cancilla rufilirata (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850) accepted as Imbricaria rufilirata (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Species Cancilla turtoni (E. A. Smith, 1890) accepted as Isara turtoni (E. A. Smith, 1890)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

(of ) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 320 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cancilla Swainson, 1840. 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=205559 on 2026-04-30

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. Cancilla Swainson, 1840. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205559 on 2026-04-30

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-03-16 08:12:25Z

changed

Mussai, Prakash

2010-10-10 14:43:02Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2016-01-10 15:51:48Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-02-25 10:58:51Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 320 [details]

basis of record Salisbury, R. A.; Huang, S.-I [Shih-I]. (2015). Notes on Cancilla isabella (Swainson, 1831) (Neogastropoda: Mitridae) with emphasis on the radula and generic assignment within Mitridae. Visaya. 4 (4): 29-41. [details] Available for editors

status source Fedosov A., Puillandre N., Herrmann M., Kantor Yu., Oliverio M., Dgebuadze P., Modica M.V. & Bouchet P. (2018). The collapse of Mitra: molecular systematics and morphology of the Mitridae (Gastropoda: Neogastropoda). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 183(2): 253-337., available online at https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article-pdf/183/2/253/25046972/zlx073.pdf [details] Available for editors

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