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Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838)

569984 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:569984)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
  6. Littorinimorpha (Order)
  7. Naticoidea (Superfamily)
  8. Naticidae (Family)
  9. Polinicinae (Subfamily)
  10. Mammilla (Genus)
  11. Mammilla simiae (Species)
accepted
Species
Mammilla Schumacher, 1817
Mamilla simiae (Deshayes, 1848) · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Natica simiae Deshayes, 1838 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Polinices simiae (Deshayes, 1838) · unaccepted (superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Natica simiae Deshayes, 1838) Deshayes, G. P.; Milne Edwards, H. (1838). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent, par J.B.P.A. de Lamarck</i>. Deuxième édition, Tome huitième. Histoire des Mollusques. J. B. Baillière: Paris. 660 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64092
page(s): 652 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838). 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=569984 on 2026-07-28
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. Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=569984 on 2026-07-28
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2011-04-14 18:31:33Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2020-04-05 20:43:33Z
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Marshall, Bruce

original description (of Natica simiae Deshayes, 1838) Deshayes, G. P.; Milne Edwards, H. (1838). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres, présentant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent, par J.B.P.A. de Lamarck</i>. Deuxième édition, Tome huitième. Histoire des Mollusques. J. B. Baillière: Paris. 660 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/64092
page(s): 652 [details] 

basis of record Kabat A.R. (2000) Results of the Rumphius Biohistorical Expedition to Ambon (1990). Part 10. Mollusca, Gastropoda, Naticidae. <i>Zoologische Mededelingen</i> 73(25): 345-380., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/216182/ZM73_345-380.pdf [details] 

additional source Hollman M. (2008) Naticidae. In Poppe G.T. (ed.) <i>Philippine marine mollusks</i>, vol. 1: 482-501, pls 186-195. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. [details] 

additional source Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. <em>Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum.</em> 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/251565.pdf [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) <i>Seashells of eastern Arabia.</i> Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp.
page(s): 85, fig. 313 [details] 

additional source Huelsken T., Tapken D., Dahlmann T., Wägele H., Riginos C. & Hollmann M. (2012) Systematics and phylogenetic species delimitation within <i>Polinices s.l.</i> (Caenogastropoda: Naticidae) based on molecular data and shell morphology. <i>Organisms, Diversity & Evolution</i> 12: 349-375. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-012-0111-5 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Zhang S.-P. [Suping]. (2016). <i>Fauna Sinica. Invertebrata 56. Mollusca: Gastropoda: Strombacea and Naticacea</i>. Beijing: Science Press. 317 pp., 10 pls. [details] 

additional source Saito, H. (2017). Family Naticidae. Pp. 858-866, in: T. Okutani (ed.), <i>Marine Mollusks in Japan</i>, ed. 2. 2 vols. Tokai University Press. 1375 pp. [details] 

additional source Fowler, O. (2016). Seashells of the Kenya coast. ConchBooks: Harxheim. Pp. 1–170.
page(s): 28, pl. 14, fig. 12 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To Barcode of Life 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Natica simiae Deshayes, 1838)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Mamilla simiae (Deshayes, 1848))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Polinices simiae (Deshayes, 1838))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Mammilla simiae) 
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Polinices simiae (Deshayes, 1838))
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Natica simiae Deshayes, 1838)
To Malacopics (Mammilla simiae (Deshayes, 1838) Philippines, Bicol, Sorsogon, ex coll. F.J.A. Slie... 
To Malacopics (Mammilla simiae (Deshayes,1838) Egypt, Janub Sina’, Gulf of Aqaba, Dahab) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Polinices simiae (Deshayes, 1838))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
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