MolluscaBase - Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo (Linnaeus, 1767)

MolluscaBase name details

Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo (Linnaeus, 1767)

AphiaID

208318 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:208318)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Vexillum virgo (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank

Species

Parent

Vexillum (Costellaria) Swainson, 1840 accepted as Vexillum Röding, 1798

Original name

Voluta virgo Linnaeus, 1767

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Voluta virgo Linnaeus, 1767) Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature: according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places. Ed. 12. 1., Animal Kingdom. 1 & 2]. Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii. pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5
page(s): 1192 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Vexillum (Costellaria) virgo (Linnaeus, 1767). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=208318 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-11-18 08:52:33Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2009-09-05 14:30:01Z

changed

Robin, Alain

2009-09-07 10:33:00Z

changed

Robin, Alain

2014-02-16 17:19:22Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2017-03-07 06:51:51Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Voluta virgo Linnaeus, 1767) Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae per regna tria naturae: secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Ed. 12. 1., Regnum Animale. 1 & 2. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature: according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places. Ed. 12. 1., Animal Kingdom. 1 & 2]. Holmiae [Stockholm], Laurentii Salvii. pp. 1-532 [1766] pp. 533-1327 [1767]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5
page(s): 1192 [details]

basis of record Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Turner H. (2001) Katalog der Familie Costellariidae Macdonald 1860 (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia: Muricoidea). Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 100 pp.
page(s): 67 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection