African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Imbricaria filum (W. Wood, 1828)

AfReMaS name details

Imbricaria filum (W. Wood, 1828)

AphiaID

208232 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208232)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Imbricaria bicolor (Swainson, 1824) accepted as Scabricola bicolor (Swainson, 1824)

Rank

Species

Parent

Imbricaria Schumacher, 1817

Original name

Mitra filum W. Wood, 1828

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Imbricaria filum (W. Wood, 1828). 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=208232 on 2026-04-10

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. Imbricaria filum (W. Wood, 1828). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208232 on 2026-04-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-11-24 14:09:49Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2002-01-03 15:37:18Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-11-22 11:33:34Z

changed

Robin, Alain

2011-10-07 23:42:53Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2022-06-05 03:58:32Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description (of ) Wood, W. (1828). Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199 [details]

basis of record Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Cernohorsky W.O. (1991). The Mitridae of the world. Part 2. The subfamily Mitrinae concluded and subfamilies Imbricariinae and Cylindromitrinae. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 4: ii + 164 pp.
page(s): 141 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)