World Register of Deep-Sea species - Neptunea Röding, 1798

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Neptunea Röding, 1798

Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758) - Off Gairloch (Scotland - UK), 20.06.1983, 160.0 mm

AphiaID

137710 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137710)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Neptuneinae W. Stimpson, 1865

Original name

Neptunea Röding, 1798

Synonymised names

Chrysodomus Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Costaria A. N. Golikov, 1977 · unaccepted

Neptunia Locard, 1886 · unaccepted (unjustified emendation)

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Species Neptunea acutispiralis Okutani, 1968
Species Neptunea amianta (Dall, 1890)
Species Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Neptunea contraria (Linnaeus, 1771)
Species Neptunea despecta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Neptunea insularis (Dall, 1895)
Species Neptunea pribiloffensis (Dall, 1919)
Species Neptunea aquitanica Locard, 1897 accepted as Troschelia berniciensis (W. King, 1846) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Neptunea berniciensis (W. King, 1846) accepted as Troschelia berniciensis (W. King, 1846) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Neptunea bonaespei Barnard, 1963 accepted as Buccipagoda bonaespei (Barnard, 1963) accepted as Sagenotriton bonaespei (Barnard, 1963) (superseded combination)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 115 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Neptunea Röding, 1798. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137710 on 2025-11-30

Thematic species database citation

Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Neptunea Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137710 on 2025-11-30

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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2010-08-10 10:14:45Z

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Tran, Bastien

2010-09-29 16:09:11Z

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2016-03-05 10:00:39Z

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original description Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 115 [details]

original description (of Chrysodomus Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 90, 308 [details]

original description (of Costaria A. N. Golikov, 1977) Golikov, A.N. (1977). Investigation of prosobranchs of the family Fasciolariidae in temperate waters. [Голиков А.Н. 1977. К познанию брюхоногих моллюсков семейства Fasciolariidae в умеренных водах. Исследования фауны морей]. Issledovaniya Fauny Morei. 21(29): 102-104. [in Russian].
page(s): 102 [details]

taxonomy source Fraussen K. & Terryn Y. (2007). The family Buccinidae. Genus Neptunea. In: A Conchological Iconography [Directed by Guido T. Poppe & Klaus Groh]. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 159 pp., 154 pls. [details]

additional source Anonymous. (1941). The type of Neptunea "Bolten" Röding. The Nautilus. 54(4): 125-126., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8519284 [details]

additional source Rehder, H. A. (1942). The genotype of Neptunea. The Nautilus. 56(2): 69., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8520172 [details]

additional source Nelson, C. M. (1976). The type-species of Neptunea Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Buccinacea). The Nautilus. 90(4): 139-141., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8276515 [details]