MolluscaBase - Montacuta (Aligena) H. C. Lea, 1843

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Montacuta (Aligena) H. C. Lea, 1843

AphiaID

1715566 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1715566)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded rank

Accepted name

Aligena H. C. Lea, 1843

Rank

Subgenus

Type taxon

Aligena striata H. C. Lea, 1843 † (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Montacuta W. Turton, 1822

Original name

Aligena H. C. Lea, 1843

Direct children (2)

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Species Montacuta (Aligena) antwerpiensis Glibert, 1943 † accepted as Scacchia antwerpiensis (Glibert, 1945) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Montacuta (Aligena) capsuloides (Cossmann & Peyrot, 1912) † accepted as Kelliopsis capsuloides (Cossmann & Peyrot, 1912) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Aligena H. C. Lea, 1843) Lea, H. C. (1843). Description of some new fossil shells from the Tertiary of Virginia. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 3: 162-165 [Final publication: see H.C. Lea 1846]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27068863
page(s): 163 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Montacuta (Aligena) H. C. Lea, 1843. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1715566 on 2025-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2023-10-26 08:49:54Z

created

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Sources (2)

original description (of Aligena H. C. Lea, 1843) Lea, H. C. (1843). Description of some new fossil shells from the Tertiary of Virginia. <em>Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.</em> 3: 162-165 [Final publication: see H.C. Lea 1846]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27068863
page(s): 163 [details]

basis of record Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 91 [details]