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Littoraria coccinea (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

208936 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208936)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Littoraria J. E. Gray, 1833

Original name

Helix coccinea Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Helix coccinea Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (original combination)

Littorina coccinea (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted

Littorina obesa G. B. Sowerby I, 1832 · unaccepted

Turbo tautiranus Curtiss, 1938 · unaccepted

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Subspecies Littoraria coccinea concinna (Gmelin, 1791)
Subspecies Littoraria coccinea glabrata (R. A. Philippi, 1846)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Helix coccinea Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3651. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Tahiti

type locality contained in Tahiti [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Littoraria coccinea (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208936 on 2025-05-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-06-03 15:01:39Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-01-05 15:18:33Z

changed

Reid, David G.

2020-07-26 09:27:40Z

changed

Herbert, David

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description (of Littorina obesa G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) Sowerby I, G. B. (1821-1834). The genera of recent and fossil shells, for the use of students, in conchology and geology. Published in 42 parts. Vol. 1, pls 1-126 [1821-1825]; vol. 2, pls 127-262 + text (unpaginated) [1825-1834]. London: G. B. Sowerby. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/45486673
page(s): 37, [211], fig. 6 [details]

original description (of Turbo tautiranus Curtiss, 1938) Curtiss, A. (1938). A short zoology of Tahiti in the Society islands. Guide Printing Company, Inc., Brooklyn, New York. i-xvi + 1-193.
page(s): 190 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Helix coccinea Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3651. [details]

basis of record Reid, D. G. (1986). The littorinid molluscs of mangrove forests in the Indo-Pacific region. British Museum (Natural History. London. [details]

additional source Reid, D. G. (1989). The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. 324: 1-110., available online at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1989.0040 [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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additional source Reid, D. G., Dyal, P., & Williams, S. T. (2010). Global diversification of mangrove fauna: a molecular phylogeny of Littoraria (Gastropoda: Littorinidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 55:185-201., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2009.09.036 [details]