Hong Kong Register of Marine Species - Rhinoclavis Swainson, 1840

HKRMS taxon details

Rhinoclavis Swainson, 1840

AphiaID

137762 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137762)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Cerithiinae J. Fleming, 1822

Original name

Rhinoclavis Swainson, 1840

Synonymised names

Cerithium (Proclava) Thiele, 1929 · unaccepted

Rhinoclavis (Proclava) Thiele, 1929 · alternative representation

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Species Rhinoclavis kochi (R. A. Philippi, 1848)
Species Rhinoclavis sinensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Rhinoclavis sordidula (A. A. Gould, 1849)
Subgenus Rhinoclavis (Proclava) Thiele, 1929 represented as Rhinoclavis Swainson, 1840
1. Species Rhinoclavis (Proclava) sordidula (A. A. Gould, 1849) represented as Rhinoclavis sordidula (A. A. Gould, 1849)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

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): 157, 315 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Rhinoclavis Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2021) Hong Kong Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137762 on 2026-02-17

Regional species database citation

Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2026). Hong Kong Register of Marine Species. Rhinoclavis Swainson, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137762 on 2026-02-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-09-28 06:51:36Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-11-01 13:33:31Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2018-05-02 18:00:41Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-08-18 20:11:33Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description 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): 157, 315 [details]

original description (of Cerithium (Proclava) Thiele, 1929) Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp. Vol. 1 part 1: 1-376 [between 4 September and 21 October 1929]; Vol. 1 part 2: 377-778 [before 31 October 1931]; Vol. 2 part 3: 779-1022 [before 19 January 1934]; Vol. 2 part 4: i-iv, 1023-1154, i-vi for volume 1 [before 27 March 1935]. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 212 [details] Available for editors

basis of record Houbrick, R. S. (1978). The family Cerithiidae in the Indo-Pacific. Part 1: the genera Rhinoclavis, Pseudovertagus and Clavocerithium. Monographs of Marine Mollusca. 1: 1-130. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Rhinoclavis)
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