African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Ancilla ordinaria E. A. Smith, 1906

AfReMaS taxon details

Ancilla ordinaria E. A. Smith, 1906

AphiaID

448011 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:448011)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Ancilla Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Ancilla ordinaria E. A. Smith, 1906

Synonymised names

Ancilla fasciata (Reeve, 1864) · unaccepted > junior homonym

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Variety Ancilla ordinaria var. major W. H. Turton, 1932 accepted as Ancilla albozonata E. A. Smith, 1904 (junior synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Smith, E. A. 1906. On South African marine Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Annals of the Natal Government Museum 1:19-71, pls. 7-8.
page(s): 27, pl. 7, fig. 4. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ancilla ordinaria E. A. Smith, 1906. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=448011 on 2026-08-08

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. Ancilla ordinaria E. A. Smith, 1906. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=448011 on 2026-08-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-01-20 10:24:07Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-03-22 13:29:19Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-17 12:11:19Z

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Tran, Bastien

2012-03-27 16:48:13Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

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original description Smith, E. A. 1906. On South African marine Mollusca, with descriptions of new species. Annals of the Natal Government Museum 1:19-71, pls. 7-8.
page(s): 27, pl. 7, fig. 4. [details]

additional source Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector's Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 130. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Ancilla fasciata (Reeve, 1864))
To Malacopics (Ancilla ordinaria E. A. Smith, 1906 South Africa, Eastern Cape, St. Francis Bay, Je...
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Ancilla fasciata (Reeve, 1864))

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To Malacopics (Ancilla ordinaria E. A. Smith, 1906 South Africa, Eastern Cape, St. Francis Bay, Je...

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