WoRMS name details
Echinella Swainson, 1840
445521 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:445521)
unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of Echinella Bory de St Vincent, 1824; Echinellopsis is a replacement name)
Genus
Monodonta coronaria Lamarck, 1816 accepted as Tectarius grandinatus (Gmelin, 1791) (type by subsequent designation)
- Species Echinella cumingi (R. A. Philippi, 1846) accepted as Tectarius cumingii (R. A. Philippi, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Echinella gaidei Montrouzier, 1879 accepted as Peasiella conoidalis (Pease, 1868)
- Species Echinella tectiformis R. B. Watson, 1880 accepted as Orectospira tectiformis (R. B. Watson, 1880) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
(of Monodonta (Echinella) 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): 207, 221, 352 [details]
page(s): 207, 221, 352 [details]
Nomenclature Echinella Bory de St Vincent, 1824, is now classified as a diatom, but was originally described as a "zoophyte" and as such...
Nomenclature Echinella Bory de St Vincent, 1824, is now classified as a diatom, but was originally described as a "zoophyte" and as such enters in homonymy in zoological nomenclature under ICZN Art. 2.2. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Echinella Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=445521 on 2024-03-29
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original description
(of Monodonta (Echinella) 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): 207, 221, 352 [details]
basis of record Reid, D. G. (1989). Systematic revision of the Recent species of <i>Peasiella</i> Nevill, 1885 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae), with notes on the fossil species. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 103(2): 43-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8278043 [details]
page(s): 207, 221, 352 [details]
basis of record Reid, D. G. (1989). Systematic revision of the Recent species of <i>Peasiella</i> Nevill, 1885 (Gastropoda: Littorinidae), with notes on the fossil species. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 103(2): 43-69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8278043 [details]
From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Echinella Bory de St Vincent, 1824, is now classified as a diatom, but was originally described as a "zoophyte" and as such enters in homonymy in zoological nomenclature under ICZN Art. 2.2. [details]