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Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910.
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Gmelin, J. F.
1791
Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910
Tom. I. Pars VI.: pp. 3021–3910
Publication
A second edition printed, with alterations, at Lugduni. Publication date based on Hopkinson, J. (1908). Dates of publication of the separate parts of Gmelin's edition (13th) of the "Systema Naturae" of Linnaeus. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1908 (no. 69): 1035-1037. [ref. 21257]. From Eschmeyer on the web.
Publication date based on Hopkinson 1908:1036 [ref. 21257]; sometimes seen as 1788. A second edition printed, with alterations, from Lugduni.Hopkinson, J. (1908). Dates of publication of the separate parts of Gmelin's edition (13th) of the "Systema Naturae" of Linnaeus. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1908 (no. 69): 1035-1037. [ref. 21257] From Eschmeyer on the web.
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Spongia canalium Schröter, 1788 accepted as Spongilla lacustris (Linnaeus, 1759) (additional source)
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Spongia flabelliformis Linnaeus, 1759 accepted as Ianthella flabelliformis (Linnaeus, 1759) (additional source)
Spongia floribunda Pallas, 1766 (additional source)
Spongia fluviatilis Linnaeus, 1759 accepted as Ephydatia fluviatilis (Linnaeus, 1759) (additional source)
Spongia infundibuliformis Linnaeus, 1759 accepted as Axinella infundibuliformis (Linnaeus, 1759) (additional source)
Spongia lacustris Linnaeus, 1759 accepted as Spongilla lacustris (Linnaeus, 1759) (additional source)
Spongia muricata Linnaeus, 1759 accepted as Trikentrion muricatum (Linnaeus, 1759) (additional source)
Spongia nigra Linnaeus, 1788 (original description)
Spongia nodosa Linnaeus, 1759 accepted as Amphimedon nodosa (Linnaeus, 1759) (additional source)
Spongia oculata Linnaeus, 1759 accepted as Haliclona (Haliclona) oculata (Linnaeus, 1759) (additional source)
Spongia officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 represented as Spongia (Spongia) officinalis Linnaeus, 1759 (additional source)
Spongia papillaris Pallas, 1766 accepted as Halichondria (Halichondria) papillaris (Pallas, 1766) (additional source)
Spongia rubra Linnaeus, 1791 (original description)
Spongia tubulosa Linnaeus, 1759 accepted as Siphonochalina tubulosa (Linnaeus, 1759) (additional source)
English ribbed Mediterranean limpet for Patella ferruginea Gmelin, 1791
 Additional information

Gmelin (1791 Syst. Nat., ed. 13, p. 3545, nr. 66) also lists two varieties (bèta and gamma) of Murex ficus Gmelin, ... [details]

 Editor's comment

Some authors have credited Müller with this name, for example Fauvel 1927, but Müller did not use a binominal. ... [details]

 Homonymy

Gmelin used the name Buccinum ventricosum twice, for two different species: (1) On page 3476, he used the name ... [details]

 Homonymy

Gmelin used the name Buccinum ventricosum twice, for two different species: (1) On page 3476, he used the name ... [details]

 Homonymy

Serpula cornucopiae Gmelin, 1791: 3745 [details]

 Synonymy

See Amphitrite cirrata and linked names for the complicated history. Montagu for example used Sabella cirrata and ... [details]

 Taxonomy

Is an indeterminate species of turrid. [details]

 Taxonomy

Indeterminable as no material exists. Undoubtedly a foraminifer, not an annelid tube. Also later reassigned to ... [details]

 Type locality

"Guinea" [details]

 Type locality

Not given [details]

 Type locality

'Habitat in India' [details]

 Type locality

'In India' [details]

 Type locality

Unknown [details]



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