WoRMS taxon details
Montfortula Iredale, 1915
585814 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:585814)
accepted
Genus
Emarginula rugosa Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 accepted as Montfortula rugosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (type by original designation)
Clypidina (Montfortula) Iredale, 1915 · unaccepted
Plagiorhytis P. Fischer, 1885 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of...)
Invalid: junior homonym of Plagiorhytis Chaudoir, 1848
Subemarginula (Plagiorhytis) P. Fischer, 1885 · unaccepted
Variegemarginula J. H. McLean, 2011 · unaccepted
- Species Montfortula brevirimata (Deshayes, 1863)
- Species Montfortula chathamensis H. J. Finlay, 1928
- Species Montfortula fujitai (T. Habe, 1953)
- Species Montfortula punctata (A. Adams, 1852)
- Species Montfortula rugosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834)
- Species Montfortula variegata (A. Adams, 1852)
- Species Montfortula lyallensis Mestayer, 1928 accepted as Montfortula rugosa (Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) (junior subjective synonym)
- Species Montfortula picta (Dunker, 1860) accepted as Montfortia picta (Dunker, 1860) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Montfortula pulchra (A. Adams, 1852) accepted as Montfortia pulchra (A. Adams, 1852)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Iredale, T. (1915). A commentary on Suter's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. <em>Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute.</em> 47: 417-497., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3343255
page(s): 433, 435 [details]
page(s): 433, 435 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Montfortula Iredale, 1915. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585814 on 2025-12-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Iredale, T. (1915). A commentary on Suter's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. <em>Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute.</em> 47: 417-497., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3343255
page(s): 433, 435 [details]
original description (of Variegemarginula J. H. McLean, 2011) McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). <i>Malacologia</i> 54(1-2): 407-427.
page(s): 415 [details]
page(s): 433, 435 [details]
original description (of Variegemarginula J. H. McLean, 2011) McLean J.H. (2011) Reinstatement of the fissurellid subfamily Hemitominae, with the description of new genera, and proposed evolutionary lineage, based on morphological characters of shell and radula (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda). <i>Malacologia</i> 54(1-2): 407-427.
page(s): 415 [details]
Other
additional source
Cunha T.J., Lemer S., Bouchet P., Kano Y. & Giribet G. (2019). Putting keyhole limpets on the map: phylogeny and biogeography of the globally distributed marine family Fissurellidae (Vetigastropoda, Mollusca). <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 135: 249-269., available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2019.02.008 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
