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Defrancia Millet, 1827

205042 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205042)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Mollusca
  4. Gastropoda
  5. Caenogastropoda
  6. Neogastropoda
  7. Conoidea
  8. Clathurellidae
  9. Defrancia
 unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of Defrancia Bronn, 1825 [Bryozoa]; Pleurotomoides and Lora are replacement names)
Pleurotomoides Bronn, 1831
Genus
Clathurellidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858

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  1. Species Defrancia aequalis Jeffreys, 1867 accepted as Cyrillia aequalis (Jeffreys, 1867)
  2. Species Defrancia becki Møller, 1842 accepted as Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) (synonym)
  3. Species Defrancia cinerea Møller, 1842 accepted as Oenopota cinerea (Møller, 1842) (original combination)
  4. Species Defrancia cylindracea Møller, 1842 accepted as Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) (synonym)
  5. Species Defrancia elegans Møller, 1842 accepted as Oenopota elegans (Møller, 1842) (original combination)
  6. Species Defrancia exarata Møller, 1842 accepted as Propebela exarata (Møller, 1842) (original combination)
  7. Species Defrancia formosa Jeffreys, 1883 accepted as Pleurotomella packardii A. E. Verrill, 1872
  8. Species Defrancia implicisculpta Sturany, 1896 accepted as Pleurotomella eurybrocha (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896) (synonym)
  9. Species Defrancia leufroyi (Michaud, 1828) accepted as Leufroyia leufroyi (Michaud, 1828) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  10. Species Defrancia linearis (Montagu, 1803) accepted as Raphitoma linearis (Montagu, 1803) accepted as Cyrillia linearis (Montagu, 1803)
  11. Species Defrancia nobilis Møller, 1842 accepted as Propebela nobilis (Møller, 1842) (original combination)
  12. Species Defrancia pingelii Møller, 1842 accepted as Oenopota pingelii (Møller, 1842) (original combination)
  13. Species Defrancia purpurea (Montagu, 1803) accepted as Raphitoma purpurea (Montagu, 1803) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  14. Species Defrancia reticulata (Renier, 1804) accepted as Raphitoma echinata (Brocchi, 1814) † (unavailable name (published in a work rejected by ICZN))
  15. Species Defrancia scalaris Møller, 1842 accepted as Propebela scalaris (Møller, 1842) (original combination)
  16. Species Defrancia vahli Møller, 1842 accepted as Oenopota pyramidalis (Strøm, 1788) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  17. Species Defrancia woodiana Møller, 1842 accepted as Obesotoma woodiana (Møller, 1842) (original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Millet, P. A. (1827). Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de coquilles de la familie des Zoophages. <em>Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Paris.</em> 5: 437-441, pl. 9., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3860698
page(s): 437 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Defrancia Millet, 1827. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205042 on 2026-09-02
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Defrancia Millet, 1827. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=205042 on 2026-09-02
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2001-11-20 17:21:29Z
created
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2006-08-28 10:18:39Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2011-07-29 10:58:45Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2011-08-05 07:15:23Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2015-05-05 14:17:59Z
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Gofas, Serge
2019-01-27 18:56:21Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2020-11-05 15:45:50Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2022-12-25 20:23:31Z
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Bouchet, Philippe

original description Millet, P. A. (1827). Mémoire sur un nouveau genre de coquilles de la familie des Zoophages. <em>Mémoires de la Société Linnéenne de Paris.</em> 5: 437-441, pl. 9., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3860698
page(s): 437 [details] 

subsequent type designation Dall, W. H. (1908). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 43(6): 205-487, pls 1-22., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28878051
page(s): 259 [details] 
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