North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Janthina bicolor O. G. Costa, 1830

AphiaID

747023 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:747023)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (junior homonym of Janthina bicolor Menke, 1828; Janthina costae is a replacement name)

Accepted name

Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Janthina Röding, 1798

Original name

Janthina bicolor O. G. Costa, 1830

Environment

marine

Original description

Costa, O. G. (1830 ["1829"]). Catalogo sistematico e ragionato de' testacei delle Due Sicilie. Tipografia della Minerva, Napoli, pp. 1-8, i-cxxxii, pl. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13047696
page(s): cvi, cxii-cxiii [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Janthina bicolor O. G. Costa, 1830. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=747023 on 2026-09-15

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Janthina bicolor O. G. Costa, 1830. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=747023 on 2026-09-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-01-24 06:18:06Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2017-09-17 15:51:42Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2024-12-14 18:48:30Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

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original description Costa, O. G. (1830 ["1829"]). Catalogo sistematico e ragionato de' testacei delle Due Sicilie. Tipografia della Minerva, Napoli, pp. 1-8, i-cxxxii, pl. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13047696
page(s): cvi, cxii-cxiii [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications)