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Tomellana Wenz, 1943

AphiaID

578159 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:578159)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Clavatula lineata Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Tomellana lineata (Lamarck, 1816) (type by typification of replaced name)

Parent

Clavatulidae J. E. Gray, 1853

Original name

Tomellana Wenz, 1943

Synonymised names

Tomella Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of...)

Invalid: junior homonym of Tomella Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [Diptera]; Tomellana is a replacement name

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Species Tomellana aueri Harzhauser, Landau & R. Janssen, 2022 †
Species Tomellana desmoulinsi Vera-Peláez, 2022 †
Species Tomellana dulaii Harzhauser, Landau & R. Janssen, 2022 †
Species Tomellana hupferi (Strebel, 1912)
Species Tomellana jouannetii (Des Moulins, 1842) †
Species Tomellana leschkei (Strebel, 1912)
Species Tomellana lineata (Lamarck, 1816)
Species Tomellana praecursor (Schaffer, 1912) †
Species Tomellana semimarginata (Lamarck, 1822) †
Species Tomellana sinornata Vera-Peláez, 2022 †
Species Tomellana splendens Vera-Peláez, 2022 †
Species Tomellana pfefferi (Strebel, 1912) accepted as Fusiturris pfefferi (Strebel, 1912)

Environment

marine

Original description

Wenz, W. (1938-1944). Gastropoda. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. In: Schindewolf, O. H. (Ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6. Bornträger, Berlin, xii + 1639 pp. Lief. 1, pp. 1-240 [March 1938]; 3, pp. 241-480 [October 1938]; 4, pp. 481-720 [July 1939]; 6, pp. 721-960 [August 1940]; 7, pp. 961-1200 [October 1941]; 8, pp. 1201-1506 [October 1943]; 9, pp. 1507-1639, i-xii [November 1944].
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Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tomellana Wenz, 1943. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=578159 on 2025-05-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2011-08-04 16:03:15Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2011-08-19 20:46:20Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2016-05-27 09:32:59Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2022-04-04 14:22:18Z

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Kovács, Zoltán

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original description Wenz, W. (1938-1944). Gastropoda. Teil 1: Allgemeiner Teil und Prosobranchia. In: Schindewolf, O. H. (Ed.) Handbuch der Paläozoologie, Band 6. Bornträger, Berlin, xii + 1639 pp. Lief. 1, pp. 1-240 [March 1938]; 3, pp. 241-480 [October 1938]; 4, pp. 481-720 [July 1939]; 6, pp. 721-960 [August 1940]; 7, pp. 961-1200 [October 1941]; 8, pp. 1201-1506 [October 1943]; 9, pp. 1507-1639, i-xii [November 1944].
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original description (of Tomella Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 155, 314 [details]

basis of record Nolf, F. (2015). The genus Tomellana (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Clavatulidae) in West Africa: a comprehensive Survey and establishment of Fusiturris kribiensis Bozzetti, 2015 as a junior synonym. Neptunea. 13 (4): 17-37., available online at https://neptuneaorg.files.wordpress.com/2019/02/np13-4-tekst.pdf#17 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308., available online at http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full.pdf [details]

additional source Harzhauser, M.; Landau, B.; Janssen, R. (2022). The Clavatulidae (Gastropoda, Conoidea) of the Miocene Paratethys Sea with considerations on fossil and extant Clavatulidae genera. Zootaxa. 5123(1): 1-172., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5123.1.1 [details]

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