African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)

AfReMaS name details

Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

473138 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:473138)

Classification

Status

alternative representation

Accepted name

Pseudovertagus aluco (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) Vignal, 1904 represented as Pseudovertagus Vignal, 1904

Original name

Murex aluco Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 755 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). 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=473138 on 2025-12-14

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) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Pseudovertagus (Pseudovertagus) aluco (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=473138 on 2025-12-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-04-29 14:46:22Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2012-05-24 01:03:02Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

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Sources (2)

original description (of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 755 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Houbrick, R. S. (1978). The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1: the genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 1: 1-130.
page(s): 101, pl. 5 figs 1-3, pls 76-79 [details]