African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Naticarius alapapilionis (Röding, 1798)

AfReMaS name details

Naticarius alapapilionis (Röding, 1798)

AphiaID

570007 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:570007)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Glyphepithema alapapilionis (Röding, 1798)

Rank

Species

Parent

Naticarius Duméril, 1805

Original name

Cochlis alapapilionis Röding, 1798

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 146 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Naticarius alapapilionis (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: 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 at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=570007 on 2026-08-07

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. Naticarius alapapilionis (Röding, 1798). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=570007 on 2026-08-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-04-14 18:31:33Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2017-09-11 13:29:47Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-08-20 14:46:09Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

2026-04-22 08:56:25Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

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original description (of ) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 146 [details]

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

additional source Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/251565.pdf
page(s): 97, pl. 3 fig. 27 [details] Available for editors

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

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

additional source Steyn, D. G. & Lussi, M. (2005). Offshore shells of southern Africa: A pictorial guide to more than 750 gastropods. Published by the authors. pp. i–vi, 1–289.
page(s): 54 [details]

additional source Fowler, O. (2016). Seashells of the Kenya coast. ConchBooks: Harxheim. Pp. 1–170.
page(s): 27, pl. 14, fig. 9 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Barcode of Life
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection