MolluscaBase - Pleurotoma gigantea Mörch, 1869

MolluscaBase name details

Pleurotoma gigantea Mörch, 1869

AphiaID

437115 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:437115)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Obesotoma gigantea (Mörch, 1869)

Rank

Species

Parent

Pleurotoma Lamarck, 1799 accepted as Turris Batsch, 1789

Original name

Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea var. gigantea Mörch, 1869

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea var. gigantea Mörch, 1869) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1869). Catalogue des mollusques du Spitzberg recueillis par le Dr. H. Kroyer pendant le voyage de la corvette La Recherche en juin 1838. Annales de la Société Malacologique de Belgique. 4: 7-32., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7238722
page(s): 22 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pleurotoma gigantea Mörch, 1869. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=437115 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-12-02 13:10:05Z

created

Tucker, John

2021-07-23 20:23:42Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

Licensing

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Sources (1)

original description (of Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea var. gigantea Mörch, 1869) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1869). Catalogue des mollusques du Spitzberg recueillis par le Dr. H. Kroyer pendant le voyage de la corvette La Recherche en juin 1838. Annales de la Société Malacologique de Belgique. 4: 7-32., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7238722
page(s): 22 [details]