North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

WoRMS name details

Lunatia heros (Say, 1822)

AphiaID

574706 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:574706)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (unaccepted combination)

Accepted Name

Euspira heros (Say, 1822)

Rank

Species

Parent

Lunatia J. E. Gray, 1847 accepted as Euspira Agassiz, 1837

Original name

Natica heros Say, 1822

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Natica heros Say, 1822) Say, T. (1822). An account of some of the marine shells of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 2(1): 221-248; 2(2): 257-276, 302-325., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36831411
page(s): 248 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lunatia heros (Say, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574706 on 2025-01-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2011-07-01 08:10:36Z

created

db_admin

2011-10-27 04:14:08Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2014-01-03 15:27:28Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2021-11-22 17:25:15Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

Licensing

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original description (of Natica heros Say, 1822) Say, T. (1822). An account of some of the marine shells of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 2(1): 221-248; 2(2): 257-276, 302-325., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36831411
page(s): 248 [details]

basis of record Torigoe K. & Inaba A. (2011). Revision on the classification of Recent Naticidae. Bulletin of the Nishinomiya Shell Museum. 7: 133 + 15 pp., 4 pls., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/251565.pdf [details] Available for editors

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additional source Hinkley, A. A. (1909). Variation. The Nautilus. 23(1): 15-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5314591
page(s): 15 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (157 publications)
To GenBank (17 nucleotides; 16 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS