North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Trochus varius Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

437329 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:437329)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Steromphala varia (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Trochus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Trochus varius Linnaeus, 1758

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Variety Trochus varius var. marmorata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884 accepted as Gibbula varia (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Steromphala varia (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Trochus varius Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=437329 on 2026-08-23

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Trochus varius Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=437329 on 2026-08-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-12-07 10:04:53Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2014-01-31 07:34:01Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2025-05-05 15:03:56Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

2026-08-21 18:33:13Z

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Dekker, Henk

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

subsequent type designation Affenzeller S., Haar N. & Steiner G. (2017). Revision of the genus complex Gibbula: an integrative approach to delineating the Eastern Mediterranean genera Gibbula Risso, 1826, Steromphala Gray, 1847, and Phorcus Risso, 1826 using DNA-barcoding and geometric morphometrics (Vetigastropoda, Trochoidea). Organisms Diversity & Evolution. 17(4): 789-812., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13127-017-0343-5
note: lectotype designated and figured [details]

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