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Ranularia cynocephala (Lamarck, 1816)
476546 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:476546)
accepted
Species
Cymatium (Ranularia) caribbaeum Clench & R. D. Turner, 1957 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cymatium (Ranularia) cynocephalum (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted
Cymatium (Ranularia) sarcostomum (Reeve, 1844) sensu Clench & R. D. Turner, 1957 · unaccepted (misapplication)
Cymatium caribbaeum Clench & R. D. Turner, 1957 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cymatium cynocephalum (Lamarck, 1816) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cymatium moritinctum (Reeve, 1844) · unaccepted
Eutritonium moritinctum (Reeve, 1844) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Murex niveus Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted
Triton cynocephalum Lamarck, 1816 · unaccepted (original combination)
Triton moritinctus Reeve, 1844 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Triton cynocephalum Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278 [details]
Note Not stated [unknown (Lamarck 1822b)]
Type locality Not stated [unknown (Lamarck 1822b)] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ranularia cynocephala (Lamarck, 1816). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=476546 on 2025-09-11
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original description
(of Cymatium (Ranularia) caribbaeum Clench & R. D. Turner, 1957) Clench, W. J. & Turner, R. D. (1957). The family Cymatiidae in the western Atlantic. <em>Johnsonia.</em> 3(36): 189-244., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41113271 [details]
original description (of Triton cynocephalum Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278 [details]
original description (of Triton moritinctus Reeve, 1844) Reeve, L. A. (1844). Monograph of the genus <i>Triton</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 2, pls 1-20 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 1-4, March 1844; 5-8, April 1844; 9-12, May 1844; 13-19, June 1844; 20, August 1844]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8937195#page/107/mode/1up
page(s): pl. 13, fig. 49 [details]
original description (of Murex niveus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3545 [details]
basis of record Beu, A. G. (2010). Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama paleontology projects and uplift of the Central American isthmus. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 377-378: 1-550, pls. 1-79.
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original description (of Triton cynocephalum Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278 [details]
original description (of Triton moritinctus Reeve, 1844) Reeve, L. A. (1844). Monograph of the genus <i>Triton</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 2, pls 1-20 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 1-4, March 1844; 5-8, April 1844; 9-12, May 1844; 13-19, June 1844; 20, August 1844]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8937195#page/107/mode/1up
page(s): pl. 13, fig. 49 [details]
original description (of Murex niveus Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3545 [details]
basis of record Beu, A. G. (2010). Neogene tonnoidean gastropods of tropical and South America: contributions to the Dominican Republic and Panama paleontology projects and uplift of the Central American isthmus. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 377-378: 1-550, pls. 1-79.
page(s): 181 [details] Available for editors
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Type locality Not stated [unknown (Lamarck 1822b)] [details]
To Malacopics (Ranularia cynocephala (Lamarck, 1816) Madagascar, Toliara, Tuléar, under dead coral, at 1-2 m depth, collected October 1997, ex coll. J.G.B. Nieuwenhuis)
To Malacopics (Ranularia cynocephala (Lamarck, 1816) United States, Florida, Florida Keys, ex coll. J.Ph. Voorwinde .)
To Malacopics (Ranularia cynocephala (Lamarck, 1816) United States, Florida, Florida Keys, ex coll. J.Ph. Voorwinde .)
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Hosted externally
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