African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

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Polygona Schumacher, 1817

AphiaID

415846 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415846)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Polygona fusiformis Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Polygona infundibulum (Gmelin, 1791) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Fasciolariinae Gray, 1853

Original name

Polygona Schumacher, 1817

Synonymised names

Latirus (Polygona) Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted > superseded rank

Plicatella Swainson, 1837 · unaccepted

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Species Polygona abbotti (M. A. Snyder, 2003)
Species Polygona anapetes (Woodring, 1964)
Species Polygona angulata (Röding, 1798)
Species Polygona bayeri (Petuch, 2001)
Species Polygona bernadensis (Bullock, 1974)
Species Polygona brevicaudata (Reeve, 1847)
Species Polygona concentrica (Reeve, 1847)
Species Polygona devyanae (Rios, P. M. Costa & Calvo, 1994)
Species Polygona filosa (Schubert & J. A. Wagner, 1829)
Species Polygona infundibulum (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Polygona jucunda (T. L. McGinty, 1940)
Species Polygona lactea (Matthews-Cascon, Matthews & Rocha, 1991)
Species Polygona martini (M. A. Snyder, 1988)
Species Polygona nemata (Woodring, 1928)
Species Polygona paulae Petuch, 2013
Species Polygona socorroensis (Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1951)
Species Polygona tumens (P. P. Carpenter, 1856)
Species Polygona vermeiji (Petuch, 1986)
Species Polygona bessei Petuch, 2013 accepted as Lamellilatirus sunderlandorum W. G. Lyons & M. A Snyder, 2013 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Polygona fusiformis Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Polygona infundibulum (Gmelin, 1791)

Environment

marine

Original description

Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 73, 241 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Polygona Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415846 on 2025-04-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-09-23 14:01:30Z

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db_admin

2009-12-29 13:46:33Z

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Tran, Bastien

2010-07-09 09:18:48Z

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Tran, Bastien

2013-05-06 08:47:31Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2016-04-07 17:54:11Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2019-01-05 11:52:39Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 73, 241 [details]

Other

additional source Couto D., Bouchet P., Kantor Yu.I., Simone L.R.L. & Giribet G. (2016). A multilocus molecular phylogeny of Fasciolariidae (Neogastropoda: Buccinoidea). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 99: 309-322., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2016.03.025 [details] Available for editors

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Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Polygona)
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