MolluscaBase - Cystopelta Tate, 1881

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Cystopelta Tate, 1881

AphiaID

818202 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:818202)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Cystopelta petterdi Tate, 1881 (type by original designation)

Parent

Cystopeltidae T. D. A. Cockerell, 1891

Original name

Cystopelta Tate, 1881

Direct children (5)

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Species Cystopelta astra Iredale, 1937
Species Cystopelta bicolor Petterd & Hedley, 1909
Species Cystopelta petterdi Tate, 1881
Species Cystopelta purpurea O. B. Davies, 1912
Species Cystopelta septentrionalis J. Stanisic, 2010

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, terrestrial

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Tate, R. (1881). On some Australian slugs, chiefly Tasmanian. <em>Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania.</em> 1880: 15-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10134414
page(s): 17 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cystopelta Tate, 1881. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=818202 on 2025-09-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2014-09-29 08:40:44Z

created

db_admin

2017-06-15 07:03:19Z

changed

Bank, Ruud

2018-10-12 08:37:22Z

changed

Köhler, Frank

Licensing

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original description Tate, R. (1881). On some Australian slugs, chiefly Tasmanian. <em>Papers and Proceedings of the Royal Society of Tasmania.</em> 1880: 15-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10134414
page(s): 17 [details]

basis of record OBIS Indo-Pacific Molluscan Database. , available online at http://clade.ansp.org/obis/ [details]

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Introduced: alien

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