WoRMS taxon details
Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855
![To GB Mollusca Types (Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Holotype; "not registered, collected 1876 [91]")](https://gbmolluscatypes.ac.uk/biosyb_images/images/0022000_0023999/web/thumbnails/0022140.jpg "To GB Mollusca Types (Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Holotype; \"not registered, collected 1876 [91]\")")
533413 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:533413)
accepted
Species
Cassidaria striata Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior secondary homonym...)
Invalid: junior secondary homonym of Cassis striata J. Sowerby, 1812
Morio (Sconsia) striata (Lamarck, 1816) † · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877 · unaccepted
Sconsia bocasensis Olsson, 1922 † · unaccepted
Sconsia laevigata var. gabbi Olsson, 1922 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Sconsia striata (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted > junior homonym (of Sconsia striata (J. Sowerby,...)
of Sconsia striata (J. Sowerby, 1812)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Adams, A. (1855). Descriptions of thirty-nine new species of shells, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1854) 22: 130-138, pl. 28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747527
page(s): 136-137, pl. 28, fig. 6. [details]
page(s): 136-137, pl. 28, fig. 6. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=533413 on 2025-07-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Adams, A. (1855). Descriptions of thirty-nine new species of shells, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1854) 22: 130-138, pl. 28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747527
page(s): 136-137, pl. 28, fig. 6. [details]
original description (of Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987) Petuch, E. J. (1987). <i>New Caribbean molluscan faunas</i>. Charlottesville, Virginia: The Coastal Education and Research Foundation. 154 pp., 29 pls; addendum 2 pp., 1 pl. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877) Higgins, H. H. (1877). Mollusca collected during a voyage to the West Indies in the Royal Mersey Steam Yacht "Argo". <em>Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.</em> 31: 409-423, pl. 1., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=xaRbxwEACAAJ&pg=PA410-IA2&hl=fr&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 411, pl. 1 fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Cassidaria striata Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278
page(s): 3 [details]
original description (of Sconsia laevigata var. gabbi Olsson, 1922) Olsson, A. A. (1922). The Miocene of northern Costa Rica with notes on its general stratigraphic relations. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 9(39): 173-481 [1-309], pls 1-32 [4-35]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46040597
page(s): 308, pl. 12 fig. 3 [details]
page(s): 136-137, pl. 28, fig. 6. [details]
original description (of Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987) Petuch, E. J. (1987). <i>New Caribbean molluscan faunas</i>. Charlottesville, Virginia: The Coastal Education and Research Foundation. 154 pp., 29 pls; addendum 2 pp., 1 pl. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877) Higgins, H. H. (1877). Mollusca collected during a voyage to the West Indies in the Royal Mersey Steam Yacht "Argo". <em>Proceedings of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool.</em> 31: 409-423, pl. 1., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=xaRbxwEACAAJ&pg=PA410-IA2&hl=fr&source=gbs_selected_pages&cad=1#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 411, pl. 1 fig. 1 [details]
original description (of Cassidaria striata Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278
page(s): 3 [details]
original description (of Sconsia laevigata var. gabbi Olsson, 1922) Olsson, A. A. (1922). The Miocene of northern Costa Rica with notes on its general stratigraphic relations. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 9(39): 173-481 [1-309], pls 1-32 [4-35]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46040597
page(s): 308, pl. 12 fig. 3 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Beu, A. G. (2008). Recent deep-water Cassidae of the world. A revision of Galeodea, Oocorys, Sconsia, Echinophoria and related taxa, with new genera and species (Mollusca, Gastropoda). In: Héros, V. et al. (eds) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos, vol. 25. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 196: 269-387. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 325 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 325 [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
additional source
Beu, A. G. (2010). Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama Paleontology Projects and uplift of the Central American Isthmus. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 377-378: 1-550.
page(s): 232 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Verbinnen G., Segers L., Swinnen F., Kreipl K. & Monsecour D. (2016). <i>Cassidae. An amazing family of seashells.</i> Harxheim: ConchBooks. 251 pp. [details]
page(s): 232 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Verbinnen G., Segers L., Swinnen F., Kreipl K. & Monsecour D. (2016). <i>Cassidae. An amazing family of seashells.</i> Harxheim: ConchBooks. 251 pp. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications) (from synonym Sconsia striata (Lamarck, 1816))
To Conchology (Sconsia grayi)
To GB Mollusca Types (Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Holotype; "not registered, collected 1876 [91]") (from synonym Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877)
To Malacopics (Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bonaire, Bonaire Basi...
To Malacopics (Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sconsia lindae Holotype USNM 784457) (from synonym Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Sconsia striata (Lamarck, 1816))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (37 publications) (from synonym Sconsia striata (Lamarck, 1816))
To Conchology (Sconsia grayi)
To GB Mollusca Types (Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877; Holotype; "not registered, collected 1876 [91]") (from synonym Sconsia barbudensis H. H. Higgins & Marrat, 1877)
To Malacopics (Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855 Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Bonaire, Bonaire Basi...
To Malacopics (Sconsia grayi A. Adams, 1855)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Sconsia lindae Holotype USNM 784457) (from synonym Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Sconsia lindae Petuch, 1987)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Sconsia striata (Lamarck, 1816))
