African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791

AfReMaS name details

Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791

AphiaID

216346 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216346)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Rochia virgata (Gmelin, 1791)

Rank

Species

Parent

Trochus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791

Environment

marine

Original description

Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3580, no. 83. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791. 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=216346 on 2026-08-29

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. Trochus virgatus Gmelin, 1791. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216346 on 2026-08-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-02-22 16:55:09Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2002-07-21 12:48:32Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-12-07 10:04:53Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-05-23 09:19:16Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2013-09-15 12:35:07Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-12-29 09:52:53Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

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original description Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3580, no. 83. [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 Jarrett, A.G. (2000) Marine Shells of the Seychelles. Carole Green Publishing, Cambridge, xiv + 149 pp. NIZT 682
page(s): 6. [details]

additional source Kilburn, R. N. (1972). Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca (2), with the description of new species and subspecies of Conus, Nassarius, Vexillum and Demoulia. Annals of the Natal Museum. 21(2): 391-437., available online at https://journals.co.za/doi/abs/10.10520/AJA03040798_664 [details] Available for editors

status source Herbert D.G. (1993). Revision of the Trochinae, tribe Trochini (Gastropoda: Trochidae) of southern Africa. Annals of the Natal Museum. 34(2): 239-308., available online at https://hdl.handle.net/10520/AJA03040798_273 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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