African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Longchaeus Mörch, 1875

AphiaID

415578 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415578)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Pyramidellidae J. E. Gray, 1840

Original name

Obeliscus (Longchaeus) Mörch, 1875

Synonymised names

Lonchaeus [sic] · unaccepted (misspelling)

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Species Longchaeus acus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Longchaeus inopinatus (Schander, 1994)
Species Longchaeus maculosus (Lamarck, 1822)
Species Longchaeus mazatlanicus (Dall & Bartsch, 1909)
Species Longchaeus turritus (A. Adams, 1854)
Species Longchaeus schanderi (van Aartsen, E. Gittenberger & Goud, 1998) accepted as Longchaeus inopinatus (Schander, 1994)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

(of ) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1875). Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium imprimis insularum danicarum. Malakozoologische Blätter. 22: 142-184., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15919003
page(s): 158 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Longchaeus Mörch, 1875. 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://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415578 on 2026-10-16

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. Longchaeus Mörch, 1875. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415578 on 2026-10-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2009-09-23 14:01:30Z

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2013-05-12 16:46:15Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2021-01-09 13:36:27Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1875). Synopsis molluscorum marinorum Indiarum occidentalium imprimis insularum danicarum. Malakozoologische Blätter. 22: 142-184., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15919003
page(s): 158 [details]

additional source Landau B.M. & LaFollette P.I. (2015). The Pyramidellidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from the Miocene Cantaure Formation of Venezuela. Cainozoic Research. 15(1-2): 13-54.
page(s): 15-16; note: Longchaeus treated as valid genus, distinct from Pyramidella; type species discussed [details] Available for editors

additional source Robba, E. (2013). Tertiary and Quaternary fossil pyramidelloidean gastropods of Indonesia. Scripta Geologica. 144: 1-191. [April 2013]. [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Longchaeus)
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Unreviewed

Longchaeus acus

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