African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Hemitoma Swainson, 1840

AphiaID

206771 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:206771)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Hemitominae Kuroda & Habe, 1971

Parent

Zeidorinae Naef, 1911

Original name

Emarginula (Hemitoma) Swainson, 1840

Synonymised names

Emarginula (Subemarginula) J. E. Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Subemarginula J. E. Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (same type species)

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Species Hemitoma cumingii (G. B. Sowerby II, 1863)
Species Hemitoma imbricata (A. Adams, 1852)
Species Hemitoma livescens (Reeve, 1855) accepted as Cellana livescens (Reeve, 1855)
Species Hemitoma profunda (Deshayes, 1863) accepted as Eoacmaea profunda (Deshayes, 1863)
Species Hemitoma tricarinata (Linnaeus, 1767) accepted as Amathina tricarinata (Linnaeus, 1767)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

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): 243, 356 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hemitoma 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=206771 on 2026-01-17

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. Hemitoma Swainson, 1840. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=206771 on 2026-01-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-12-06 17:00:29Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-13 06:47:38Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-10-03 15:39:41Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2011-11-05 09:28:42Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-03-29 17:48:32Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2020-03-05 04:09:32Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2025-03-16 07:57:26Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

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original description (of Subemarginula J. E. Gray, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyms and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 147 [details]

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): 243, 356 [details]

basis of record Korobkov I.A. (1955). Spravochnik i metodicheskoe rukovodstvo po tretichnym molliuskam. Briukhonogie. [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs. Gastropoda]. Leningrad: Gostoptekhizdat. 795 pp.
page(s): 83 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hemitoma)
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