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Neosimnia spelta (Linnaeus, 1758)

140664 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140664)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Mollusca
  4. Gastropoda
  5. Caenogastropoda
  6. Littorinimorpha
  7. Cypraeoidea
  8. Ovulidae
  9. Simniinae
  10. Neosimnia
  11. Neosimnia spelta
 unaccepted (Neosimnia treated as synonym of Simnia)
Simnia spelta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species
Neosimnia P. Fischer, 1884 accepted as Simnia Risso, 1826
marine
(of Bulla spelta Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, and species, with characters, differences, synonyms, and places.]. <em>Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae ,Stockholm, Sweden.</em> 1:[iii] + 824 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 726 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Neosimnia spelta (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2021) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140664 on 2026-10-16
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Neosimnia spelta (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=140664 on 2026-10-16
Date
action
by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Gofas, Serge
2006-03-17 07:58:39Z
changed
Wambiji, Nina
2008-05-21 19:31:37Z
checked
Gofas, Serge
2010-05-28 21:22:25Z
changed
Gofas, Serge

original description (of Bulla spelta Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, and species, with characters, differences, synonyms, and places.]. <em>Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae ,Stockholm, Sweden.</em> 1:[iii] + 824 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 726 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details] 

additional source Liltved, W. R. (2000). Cowries and their relatives of southern Africa. A study of the southern African cypraeacean and velutinacean gastropod fauna. 2nd edn, Seacomber Publications, 224 pp.
page(s): 127. [details] 

additional source Lorenz, F.; Fehse, D. (2009). <i>The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae</i>. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 651 pp., 203 pls., 375 + numerous unnumb. text figs. [details] 

additional source Rolán E. (2005). Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. <em>ConchBooks.</em> Hackenheim. ISBN 3-325319-73-2. 455 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (14 publications) 
To GenBank (48 nucleotides; 23 proteins) 
To PESI (from synonym Ovula spelta var. lutea Pallary, 1900)
To PESI 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
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