WoRMS taxon details
Thaisella forbesii (Dunker, 1853)
574253 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:574253)
accepted
Species
Purpura forbesii Dunker, 1853 · unaccepted (original combination)
Thais (Thaisella) langi Clench & R. D. Turner, 1948 · unaccepted
Thais forbesii (Dunker, 1853) · unaccepted
Thais langi Clench & R. D. Turner, 1948 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
marine
(of Purpura forbesii Dunker, 1853) Dunker, W. (1853). <i>Index molluscorum, quae in itinere ad Guineam inferiorem collegit Georgius Tams Med. Dr.</i>. Cassel, Th. Fischer, vi + 74 pp., 10 pl. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50134
page(s): 22, pl. 4 fig. 7, 8, 13 [details]
page(s): 22, pl. 4 fig. 7, 8, 13 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Thaisella forbesii (Dunker, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=574253 on 2025-05-10
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
(of Purpura forbesii Dunker, 1853) Dunker, W. (1853). <i>Index molluscorum, quae in itinere ad Guineam inferiorem collegit Georgius Tams Med. Dr.</i>. Cassel, Th. Fischer, vi + 74 pp., 10 pl. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50134
page(s): 22, pl. 4 fig. 7, 8, 13 [details]
original description (of Thais (Thaisella) langi Clench & R. D. Turner, 1948) Clench, W. J. & Turner, R. D. (1948). A new <i>Thais</i> from Angola and notes on <i>Thais haemastoma</i> Linné. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1374: 1-4., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/2332 [details]
basis of record Claremont, M., Vermeij, G. J., Williams, S. T. & Reid, D. G. (2013). Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013]. [details] Available for editors
[request]
page(s): 22, pl. 4 fig. 7, 8, 13 [details]
original description (of Thais (Thaisella) langi Clench & R. D. Turner, 1948) Clench, W. J. & Turner, R. D. (1948). A new <i>Thais</i> from Angola and notes on <i>Thais haemastoma</i> Linné. <em>American Museum Novitates.</em> 1374: 1-4., available online at http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/handle/2246/2332 [details]
basis of record Claremont, M., Vermeij, G. J., Williams, S. T. & Reid, D. G. (2013). Global phylogeny and new classification of the Rapaninae (Gastropoda: Muricidae), dominant molluscan predators on tropical rocky seashores. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 66: 91–102. [Published online 28 September 2012; Code-compliant paper version published January 2013]. [details] Available for editors
[request]Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Claremont, M., Williams, S. T., Barraclough, T. G. & Reid, D. G. (2011). The geographic scale of speciation in a marine snail with high dispersal potential. <em>Journal of Biogeography.</em> 38, 1016-1032. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Thais langi Clench & R. D. Turner, 1948)
To Conchology (Thaisella forbesii)
To Malacopics (Thais (Thaisella) langi Clench & R.D.Turner,1948 PARATYPE Angola, Benguela, Lobito B...
To Malacopics (Thaisella forbesii (Dunker, 1853) Angola, Luanda, Futungo, collected 1994, ex coll....
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Thais forbesii (Dunker, 1853))
To Conchology (Thaisella forbesii)
To Malacopics (Thais (Thaisella) langi Clench & R.D.Turner,1948 PARATYPE Angola, Benguela, Lobito B...
To Malacopics (Thaisella forbesii (Dunker, 1853) Angola, Luanda, Futungo, collected 1994, ex coll....
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Thais forbesii (Dunker, 1853))
