African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Erosaria helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)

WoRMS name details

Erosaria helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

216853 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216853)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Naria helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Erosaria Troschel, 1863 accepted as Naria J. E. Gray, 1837

Original name

Cypraea helvola Linnaeus, 1758

Direct children (7)

Ordering

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Subspecies Erosaria helvola argella (Melvill, 1888) accepted as Naria helvola helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Erosaria helvola callista (H. Shaw, 1909) accepted as Naria helvola helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Erosaria helvola citrinicolor Iredale, 1935 accepted as Naria helvola helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Erosaria helvola hawaiiensis (Melvill, 1888) accepted as Naria helvola hawaiiensis (Melvill, 1888)
Subspecies Erosaria helvola helvola (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Naria helvola helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subspecies Erosaria helvola meridionalis F. A. Schilder & M. Schilder, 1938 accepted as Naria helvola helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)
Variety Erosaria helvola var. immaculata Coen, 1949 accepted as Naria helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of Cypraea helvola Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Erosaria helvola (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216853 on 2025-07-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-08-08 05:35:53Z

created

Onyango, Eunice

2010-10-02 22:08:23Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2018-03-13 13:49:41Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cypraea helvola Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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Other

context source (HKRMS) Orr J. (1985). Hong Kong seashells. The Urban Council, Hong Kong [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (10 publications)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection