WoRMS taxon details
Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892
391578 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391578)
accepted
Genus
Iphitus tuberculatus R. B. Watson, 1886 accepted as Sansonia tuberculata (R. B. Watson, 1886) (type by monotypy)
Mecoliotia Hedley, 1899 · unaccepted (synonym)
Pickworthia Iredale, 1917 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
- Species Sansonia alisonae Le Renard & Bouchet, 2003
- Species Sansonia andamanica (Preston, 1908)
- Species Sansonia cebuana Bandel & Kowalke, 1997
- Species Sansonia costata Kase, 1998
- Species Sansonia halligani (Hedley, 1899)
- Species Sansonia hilutangensis Bandel & Kowalke, 1997
- Species Sansonia iejimensis Kase, 1998
- Species Sansonia iredalei (Bavay, 1922)
- Species Sansonia kirkpatricki (Iredale, 1917)
- Species Sansonia nuda Kase, 1998
- Species Sansonia shigemitsui Kase, 1998
- Species Sansonia sumatrensis (Thiele, 1925)
- Species Sansonia tuberculata (R. B. Watson, 1886)
- Species Sansonia umbilicata Jousseaume, 1921
- Species Sansonia andrei Jousseaume, 1921 accepted as Sansonia kirkpatricki (Iredale, 1917) (synonym)
- Species Sansonia christinae Selli, 1974 accepted as Sansonia kirkpatricki (Iredale, 1917) (synonym)
- Species Sansonia fauroti Jousseaume, 1921 accepted as Sansonia andamanica (Preston, 1908) (synonym)
- Species Sansonia kenneyi (Ladd, 1966) accepted as Mareleptopoma kenneyi (Ladd, 1966)
- Species Sansonia sansonia Jousseaume, 1921 accepted as Sansonia andamanica (Preston, 1908) (synonym)
- Species Sansonia semisculpta Espinosa & Fernández-Garcés, 1990 accepted as Cubasansonia semisculpta (Espinosa & Fernández-Garcés, 1990) (original combination)
marine
recent + fossil
Jousseaume, F. (1892). Réflexions sur la faune malacologique de la Mer Rouge. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie.</em> (7) 12: 343-363., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36923894
page(s): 344. [details]
page(s): 344. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Sansonia Jousseaume, 1892. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391578 on 2026-04-29
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Nomenclature
original description
Jousseaume, F. (1892). Réflexions sur la faune malacologique de la Mer Rouge. <em>Annales des Sciences naturelles, Zoologie.</em> (7) 12: 343-363., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36923894
page(s): 344. [details]
original description (of Pickworthia Iredale, 1917) Iredale, T. (1917). On some new species of marine mollusca from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 12(6): 331-334., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15770819
page(s): 332 [details]
original description (of Mecoliotia Hedley, 1899) Hedley C. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. (Supplement). <i>Memoirs of the Australian Museum</i>, 3: 547–565., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33592808
page(s): 555 [details]
page(s): 344. [details]
original description (of Pickworthia Iredale, 1917) Iredale, T. (1917). On some new species of marine mollusca from Christmas Island, Indian Ocean. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 12(6): 331-334., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15770819
page(s): 332 [details]
original description (of Mecoliotia Hedley, 1899) Hedley C. 1899. The Mollusca of Funafuti. (Supplement). <i>Memoirs of the Australian Museum</i>, 3: 547–565., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33592808
page(s): 555 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
