WoRMS name details
Millepora compressa Sowerby, 1806
1293346 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1293346)
unaccepted (basionym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Sowerby, J. (1806). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, Vol. 1-2 136 pp., 76 plates., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.41623
page(s): 83 [details]
page(s): 83 [details]
Type locality contained in Shetland Islands
type locality contained in Shetland Islands [details]
Status valid name, not Millepora compressa Linnaeus, 1758, name suppressed by the plenary power of the ICZN, opinion 967 (see...
Status valid name, not Millepora compressa Linnaeus, 1758, name suppressed by the plenary power of the ICZN, opinion 967 (see AphiaID 759996) [details]
WoRMS (2024). Millepora compressa Sowerby, 1806. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1293346 on 2024-04-18
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Sowerby, J. (1806). The British miscellany; or, Coloured figures of new, rare, or little known animal subjects : many not before ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles: and chiefly in the possession of the author, James Sowerby. R. Taylor & Co., London, Vol. 1-2 136 pp., 76 plates., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.41623
page(s): 83 [details]
page(s): 83 [details]
From editor or global species database
Status valid name, not Millepora compressa Linnaeus, 1758, name suppressed by the plenary power of the ICZN, opinion 967 (see AphiaID 759996) [details]