North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

ERMS taxon details

Pseudosimnia adriatica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828)

Aperiovula adriatica (Sowerby G.B. I, 1828)
Specimen from Melilla (col. Rutlant, MNHN) (actual size 25.2 mm)

AphiaID

430587 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:430587)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pseudosimnia F. A. Schilder, 1927

Original name

Ovulum adriaticum G. B. Sowerby I, 1828

Synonymised names

Aperiovula adriatica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828) · unaccepted

Aperiovula adriatica iberia C. N. Cate, 1973 · unaccepted (synonym)

Aperiovula emersoni C. N. Cate, 1973 · unaccepted (synonym)

Bulla virginea Cantraine, 1835 · unaccepted (synonym)

Ovula haliotidea Blainville, 1825 · unaccepted (synonym)

Ovulum adriaticum G. B. Sowerby I, 1828 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Ovulum adriaticum G. B. Sowerby I, 1828) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1828). On the recent species of the genus Ovulum. Zoological Journal. 4: 145-162., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485061 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Pseudosimnia adriatica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2024) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430587 on 2025-04-07

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Pseudosimnia adriatica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1828). Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=430587 on 2025-04-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-11-17 10:00:37Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2014-01-31 07:54:16Z

checked

Gofas, Serge

2019-08-15 22:36:10Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Bulla virginea Cantraine, 1835) Cantraine, F. J. (1835). Diagnoses ou descriptions succinctes de quelques espÃ¨ces nouvelles de mollusques. Bulletins de l'AcadÃ©mie Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres de Bruxelles. 2(11): 380-401., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2880681 [details]

original description (of Ovulum adriaticum G. B. Sowerby I, 1828) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1828). On the recent species of the genus Ovulum. Zoological Journal. 4: 145-162., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485061 [details]

original description (of Ovula haliotidea Blainville, 1825) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1825). Ovule, Ovula (Conchyl.), pp. 127-132, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 37. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25303650
page(s): 131; note: name credited to Renier [details]

original description (of Aperiovula emersoni C. N. Cate, 1973) Cate, C. N. (1973). A systematic revision of the recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger. 15 (supplement): 1-117., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42495434 [details]

original description (of Aperiovula adriatica iberia C. N. Cate, 1973) Cate, C. N. (1973). A systematic revision of the recent cypraeid family Ovulidae. Veliger. 15 (supplement): 1-117., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42495434 [details]

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

additional source Nappo, A. (2024). An overview of the Mediterranean 'allied cowries' (Gastropoda: Ovulidae) with the description of Xandarovula aetheria n. sp. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural History, Malta. 1(1): 37-66.
page(s): 53, 57 [details] Available for editors