African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Pyrgiscus R. A. Philippi, 1841

AfReMaS taxon details

Pyrgiscus R. A. Philippi, 1841

Turbonilla rufa (Philippi, 1836)
Specimen from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m, 19.01.2010), actual size 7.8 mm.

AphiaID

456502 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:456502)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Turbonillinae Bronn, 1849

Original name

Pyrgiscus R. A. Philippi, 1841

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Species Pyrgiscus kerstinae (Schander, 1994)
Species Pyrgiscus ninettae van Aartsen & Corgan, 1996
Species Pyrgiscus rufus (R. A. Philippi, 1836)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Philippi, [R.] A. (1841). Zoologische Bemerkungen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 7(1): 5., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9706902
page(s): 50 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pyrgiscus R. A. Philippi, 1841. 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://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456502 on 2026-10-01

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. Pyrgiscus R. A. Philippi, 1841. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456502 on 2026-10-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-02-11 14:10:23Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2011-09-22 18:28:29Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2013-06-02 16:23:25Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2015-03-21 13:35:43Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2023-02-28 12:49:09Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

2024-04-21 00:55:30Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description Philippi, [R.] A. (1841). Zoologische Bemerkungen. Archiv für Naturgeschichte. 7(1): 5., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9706902
page(s): 50 [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. [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

subsequent type designation Arnold, R. (1903). The paleontology and stratigraphy of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene of San Pedro, California. Memoirs of the California Academy of Sciences. 3: 1-420, pl. 1-20., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3136160
page(s): 274; note: designation by Dall & Bartsch [details]