North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Vanikoroidea J. E. Gray, 1840

AphiaID

387336 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:387336)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Superfamily

Parent

Littorinimorpha

Original name

Vanikoridae J. E. Gray, 1840

Synonymised names

Eulimoidea R. A. Philippi, 1853 · unaccepted

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Family Eulimidae R. A. Philippi, 1853
Family Vanikoridae J. E. Gray, 1840
Family Aclididae G. O. Sars, 1878 accepted as Eulimidae R. A. Philippi, 1853
Family Pherusidae Locard, 1886 accepted as Aclididae G. O. Sars, 1878 accepted as Eulimidae R. A. Philippi, 1853 (type genus a junior homonym of Pherusa Oken, 1807, and several others)
Family Stiliferidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1853 accepted as Eulimidae R. A. Philippi, 1853

Environment

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

Original description

(of Vanikoridae J. E. Gray, 1840) Gray, J. E. (1840). Shells of molluscous animals. In: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 42, 2nd printing: 106-156. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55312547
page(s): 121, 152; note: as Vanicoroidae, based on Vanicoro Gray, 1840, an unjustified emendation of Vanikoro. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Vanikoroidea J. E. Gray, 1840. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=387336 on 2026-08-25

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Vanikoroidea J. E. Gray, 1840. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=387336 on 2026-08-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-03-27 17:40:10Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2025-07-30 18:16:08Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

2025-11-19 09:35:32Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Vanikoridae J. E. Gray, 1840) Gray, J. E. (1840). Shells of molluscous animals. In: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, ed. 42, 2nd printing: 106-156. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55312547
page(s): 121, 152; note: as Vanicoroidae, based on Vanicoro Gray, 1840, an unjustified emendation of Vanikoro. [details]

basis of record Bouchet, P. & Rocroi, J.-P. (2005). Classification and nomenclator of gastropod families. Malacologia. 47 (1-2): 1-397. [20 July]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/25127200 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Eulimoidea R. A. Philippi, 1853)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Vanikoroidea)
To Genbank (from synonym Eulimoidea R. A. Philippi, 1853)
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