WoRMS name details
Sydaphera Iredale, 1929
456525 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:456525)
unaccepted > superseded rank
Merica (Sydaphera) Iredale, 1929 represented as Merica H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854
Genus
Sydaphera renovata Iredale, 1929 accepted as Merica undulata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849) (type by original designation)
- Species Sydaphera anxifer (Iredale, 1925) accepted as Merica anxifer (Iredale, 1925) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera australis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) accepted as Merica australis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera christiana Verhecken, 2008 accepted as Merica christiana (Verhecken, 2008) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera delicosa Laseron, 1955 accepted as Merica delicosa (Laseron, 1955) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera fulva (Y.-C. Lee & T. C. Lan, 2002) accepted as Merica fulva (Y.-C. Lee & T. C. Lan, 2002) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera gigantea (Y.-C. Lee & T. C. Lan, 2002) accepted as Merica gigantea (Y.-C. Lee & T. C. Lan, 2002) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera granosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) accepted as Merica granosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1832) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera lactea (Deshayes, 1830) accepted as Merica lactea (Deshayes, 1830) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera obnixa Iredale, 1936 accepted as Merica obnixa (Iredale, 1936) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera panamuna (Garrard, 1975) accepted as Merica panamuna (Garrard, 1975) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera purpuriformis (Kiener, 1841) accepted as Merica purpuriformis (Kiener, 1841) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera renovata Iredale, 1929 accepted as Merica undulata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Sydaphera spengleriana (Deshayes, 1830) accepted as Merica spengleriana (Deshayes, 1830) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera tasmanica (Tenison Woods, 1876) accepted as Merica tasmanica (Tenison Woods, 1876) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Sydaphera undulata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849) accepted as Merica undulata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1849) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Iredale, T. (1929). Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> 5(4): 337-352., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38709514
page(s): 341 [details]
page(s): 341 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Sydaphera Iredale, 1929. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456525 on 2026-02-08
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Iredale, T. (1929). Strange molluscs in Sydney Harbour. <em>Australian Zoologist.</em> 5(4): 337-352., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38709514
page(s): 341 [details]
basis of record Hemmen, J. (2007). <i>Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae</i>. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, <i>Recent Cancellariidae</i> by Jens Hemmen, 2007. <i>Conchologia Ingrata</i> 9: 1-8]. [details]
page(s): 341 [details]
basis of record Hemmen, J. (2007). <i>Recent Cancellariidae. Annotated and illustrated catalogue of Recent Cancellariidae</i>. Privately published, Wiesbaden. 428 pp. [With amendments and corrections taken from Petit R.E. (2012) A critique of, and errata for, <i>Recent Cancellariidae</i> by Jens Hemmen, 2007. <i>Conchologia Ingrata</i> 9: 1-8]. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Verhecken A. (2011) The Cancellariidae of the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004 and the Panglao 2005 and Aurora 2007 deep sea cruises in the Philippines, with description of six new species (Neogastropoda, Cancellarioidea). <i>Vita Malacologica</i> 9: 1-60. [Published 31 May 2011]
page(s): 13, 17 [details]
page(s): 13, 17 [details]
