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Subulites Emmons, 1842 †
1586429 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1586429)
accepted
Genus
Subulites elongata Emmons, 1842 † accepted as Subulites subelongata (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) † (type by monotypy)
Polyphemopsis Portlock, 1843 † · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
- Species Subulites conradi Ulrich & Scofield, 1897 †
- Species Subulites gloucesterensis A. E. Wilson, 1951 †
- Species Subulites regularis Ulrich & Scofield, 1897 †
- Species Subulites subelongata (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) †
- Species Subulites elongata Emmons, 1842 † accepted as Subulites subelongata (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) † (unaccepted > junior homonym, junior secondary homonym of Macrocheilus elongatus Philippi, 1841; Loxonema subelongata is a replacement name)
- Species Subulites subelongatus (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) † accepted as Subulites subelongata (A. d'Orbigny, 1850) † (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Subulites ventricosa J. Hall, 1852 † accepted as Cyrtospira ventricosa (J. Hall, 1852) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Subulites ventricosus J. Hall, 1852 † accepted as Cyrtospira ventricosa (J. Hall, 1852) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Subulites attenuatus Lindström, 1884 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Subulites beloitensis Ulrich & Scofield, 1897 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Subulites inflatus Meek & Worthen, 1870 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Subulites minor H.-Z. Pan, 1978 † (uncertain)
- Species Subulites nanus Ulrich, 1897 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Subulites nitens Lindström, 1880 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Subulites parvulus Billings, 1862 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Subulites parvus Ulrich, 1897 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Subulites pergracilis Ulrich & Scofield, 1897 † (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
Emmons, E. (1842). Geology of New-York. Part II. Comprising the survey of the second geological district. New York State Geological Survey, Albany, 429 pp., available online at https://books.google.de/books?id=oW4_AAAAcAAJ
page(s): 392 [details]
page(s): 392 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Subulites Emmons, 1842 †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1586429 on 2025-09-11
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Emmons, E. (1842). Geology of New-York. Part II. Comprising the survey of the second geological district. New York State Geological Survey, Albany, 429 pp., available online at https://books.google.de/books?id=oW4_AAAAcAAJ
page(s): 392 [details]
original description (of Polyphemopsis Portlock, 1843 †) Portlock, J. E. (1843). Report on the Geology of the county of Londonderry and a part of Tyrone and Fermanagh. Examined and described under the authority of the Master General and Board of Ordnance. Dublin (Milliken). pp. 1-784, Pls I - XXXVIII; A-I. , available online at https://books.google.it/books?id=qw68AAAAIAAJ&hl=it&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 416 [details]
additional source Nützel, A., Erwin, D. H.; Mapes, R. H. (2000). Identity and phylogeny of the late Paleozoic Subulitoidea (Gastropoda). <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 74(4): 575−598. [details]
additional source Frýda, J.; Nützel, A.; Wagner, P. J. (2008). Paleozoic Gastropoda. <em>Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca.</em> 238-270., available online at https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520250925.003.0010 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 392 [details]
original description (of Polyphemopsis Portlock, 1843 †) Portlock, J. E. (1843). Report on the Geology of the county of Londonderry and a part of Tyrone and Fermanagh. Examined and described under the authority of the Master General and Board of Ordnance. Dublin (Milliken). pp. 1-784, Pls I - XXXVIII; A-I. , available online at https://books.google.it/books?id=qw68AAAAIAAJ&hl=it&pg=PR1#v=onepage&q&f=false
page(s): 416 [details]
additional source Nützel, A., Erwin, D. H.; Mapes, R. H. (2000). Identity and phylogeny of the late Paleozoic Subulitoidea (Gastropoda). <em>Journal of Paleontology.</em> 74(4): 575−598. [details]
additional source Frýda, J.; Nützel, A.; Wagner, P. J. (2008). Paleozoic Gastropoda. <em>Phylogeny and Evolution of the Mollusca.</em> 238-270., available online at https://doi.org/10.1525/california/9780520250925.003.0010 [details] Available for editors
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Grammatical gender The genus is widely used as having a masculine gender, but Emmons (1842) clearly implied a female gender ("elongata"). ICZN Art. 30.1.4.4. states that "a name ending in the suffix -ites [...] is to be treated as masculine unless its author, when establishing the name, stated that it had another gender or treated it as such by combining it with an adjectival species-group name in another gender form." [details]
