African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS name details

Ovula lactea Lamarck, 1810

AphiaID

432127 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:432127)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (original combination)

Accepted name

Procalpurnus lacteus (Lamarck, 1810)

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Procalpurnus Thiele, 1929

Parent

Ovula Bruguière, 1789

Original name

Ovula lactea Lamarck, 1810

Environment

marine

Original description

Lamarck [J.-B. M. de]. (1810). Sur la détermination des espèces parmi les animaux sans vertèbres, et particulièrement parmi les Mollusques testacés. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. 15: 20-40; [Suite des espèces du genre Cône] 263-286, 422-454; [Suite du genre Porcelaine] 16: 89-114., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3546607
page(s): 111 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Ovula lactea Lamarck, 1810. 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=432127 on 2026-07-01

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. Ovula lactea Lamarck, 1810. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=432127 on 2026-07-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-12-01 08:22:12Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-10-03 15:39:41Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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Sources (3)

original description Lamarck [J.-B. M. de]. (1810). Sur la détermination des espèces parmi les animaux sans vertèbres, et particulièrement parmi les Mollusques testacés. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. 15: 20-40; [Suite des espèces du genre Cône] 263-286, 422-454; [Suite du genre Porcelaine] 16: 89-114., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3546607
page(s): 111 [details]

source of synonymy Cate, C. N. (1973). A systematic revision of the recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. The Veliger. 15 (supplement): 1-117., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42495434 [details]

source of synonymy Lorenz, F.; Fehse, D. (2009). The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 651 pp., 203 pls., 375 + numerous unnumb. text figs. [details]