African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Gibbula townsendi G. B. Sowerby III, 1895

AfReMaS name details

Gibbula townsendi G. B. Sowerby III, 1895

AphiaID

216302 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216302)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Accepted Name

Agagus agagus Jousseaume, 1894

Rank

Species

Parent

Gibbula Risso, 1826

Orig. name

Gibbula (Enida) townsendi G. B. Sowerby III, 1895

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1895). New species of shells from Kurachi and the Mekran coast, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1: 278–280, pl. 18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15167591
page(s): 279, pl. 18, figs 7-9. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Gibbula townsendi G. B. Sowerby III, 1895. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/afremas./aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216302 on 2024-04-20

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) (2024). African Register of Marine Species. Gibbula townsendi G. B. Sowerby III, 1895. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216302 on 2024-04-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2000-07-18 15:57:33Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-12-07 10:04:53Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-05-23 09:19:16Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2012-06-08 01:03:21Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2013-09-03 21:11:08Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2020-04-27 15:15:08Z

changed

Herbert, David

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1895). New species of shells from Kurachi and the Mekran coast, collected by Mr. F. W. Townsend. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London. 1: 278–280, pl. 18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15167591
page(s): 279, pl. 18, figs 7-9. [details]

basis of record Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 41 [details]

additional source Richmond, M. (Ed.) (1997). A guide to the seashores of Eastern Africa and the Western Indian Ocean islands. Sida/Department for Research Cooperation, SAREC: Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN 91-630-4594-X. 448 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

source of synonymy Herbert D.G. (1991) A revision of the genus Agagus Jousseaume, 1894 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Trochidae). Journal of Natural History 25: 883-900. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)