MolluscaBase - Trochia Swainson, 1840

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Trochia Swainson, 1840

AphiaID

403859 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:403859)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Buccinum trochlea Bruguière, 1789 accepted as Trochia cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Ocenebrinae Cossmann, 1903

Synonymised names

Purpura (Trochia) Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted

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Species Trochia cingulata (Linnaeus, 1771)

Environment

marine

Original description

Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 74, 302 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Trochia Swainson, 1840. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=403859 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-06-17 13:52:49Z

created

Houart, Roland

2009-06-21 12:47:56Z

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Houart, Roland

2015-11-01 10:10:08Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Sources (3)

original description Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 74, 302 [details]

original description (of Purpura (Trochia) Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450 [details]

status source Barco, A.; Herbert, G.; Houart, R.; Fassio, G. & Oliverio, M. (2017). A molecular phylogenetic framework for the subfamily Ocenebrinae (Gastropoda, Muricidae). <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 46 (3): 322-335., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12219 [details] Available for editors

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