MolluscaBase taxon details
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): 2: 148 [details]
original description
(of Rapella 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): 82, 307 [details]
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From editor or global species database
Nomenclature Rapa was a pre-Linnean name established by Klein (1753), and was first made available by Röding. Under Art. 11.5.2, it is not available from Bruguière (1792, Encyclopédie méthodique. Histoire naturelle des vers, 1: 533). [details]
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