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Aporrhais da Costa, 1778

Aporrhais pespelecani

AphiaID

137656 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137656)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Aporrhais quadrifidus da Costa, 1778 accepted as Aporrhais pespelecani (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Aporrhaidae J. E. Gray, 1850

Orig. name

Aporrhais da Costa, 1778

Synonymised names

Chenopus R. A. Philippi, 1836 · unaccepted

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Species Aporrhais elegantissima Parenzan, 1970
Species Aporrhais pesgallinae Barnard, 1963
Species Aporrhais pespelecani (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Aporrhais senegalensis Gray, 1838
Species Aporrhais serresiana (Michaud, 1828)
Species Aporrhais aldrovandi Capellini, 1860 accepted as Aporrhais pespelecani (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Species Aporrhais conemenosi Monterosato, 1890 accepted as Aporrhais pespelecani (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Aporrhais francheti Rochebrune, 1883 accepted as Aporrhais senegalensis Gray, 1838
Species Aporrhais macandreae Jeffreys, 1867 accepted as Aporrhais serresiana (Michaud, 1828) (synonym)
Species Aporrhais michaudi Locard, 1891 accepted as Aporrhais serresiana (Michaud, 1828) (synonym)
Species Aporrhais occidentalis (H. Beck, 1836) accepted as Arrhoges occidentalis (H. Beck, 1836) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Aporrhais pelecanipes Locard, 1891 accepted as Aporrhais pespelecani (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Species Aporrhais pescarbonis (Brongniart, 1823) sensu Forbes & Hanley, 1853 accepted as Aporrhais serresiana (Michaud, 1828) (unaccepted > misapplication, misapplication)
Species Aporrhais pes-gallinae Barnard, 1963 accepted as Aporrhais pesgallinae Barnard, 1963 (hyphen not acceptable in specific epithet)
Species Aporrhais pespelicani [sic] accepted as Aporrhais pespelecani (Linnaeus, 1758) (misspelling)
Species Aporrhais quadrifidus da Costa, 1778 accepted as Aporrhais pespelecani (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Species Aporrhais sarsii Kobelt, 1908 accepted as Aporrhais serresiana (Michaud, 1828) (synonym)
Species Aporrhais serreseanus [sic] accepted as Aporrhais serresiana (Michaud, 1828)

Environment

marine

Original description

Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783
page(s): 136 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Aporrhais da Costa, 1778. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137656 on 2024-04-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2010-10-12 15:33:09Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-03-31 10:46:03Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783
page(s): 136 [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Cosel R. von (1977). Die Arten der Gattung Aporrhais Da Costa im Ostatlantik und Beobachtungen zum Umdrehreflex der Pelikanfuss-Schnecke Aporrhais pespelicani. Drosera 77: 37-46 [details]

additional source Manganelli, G.; Spadini, V.; Fiorentino, V. (2008). The lost Aporrhais species from the Italian Pliocene: A. peralata Sacco, 1893 (Gastropoda Caenogastropoda). Journal of Conchology. 39(5): 493-515. [details] Available for editors

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Grammatical gender Despite an early use in the masculine (Petiver, 1702-1706; Da Costa, 1778), the grammatical gender of Aporrhais is feminine because the suffix –id- indicates feminine nouns in ancient Greek. Alternative etymologies – Aporrhais from the Greek “aporrheo”, to flow away (Woodward, 1851-56), the Greek “apò”, from, and the Latin “radius”, ray (Settepassi, 1971) and the Greek “apo;”, asunder, and “raiw”, I break (Fretter & Graham, 1981) – are clearly unrealistic. [details]