Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Buccinoidea > Family Buccinidae > Genus Neptunea

Neptunea despecta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Neptunea*	Röding, 1798	accepted genus name
*Neptunia*	Locard, 1886	synonym

Species group names

*Murex despectus*	Linnaeus, 1758	basionym
*Murex carinatus*	Pennant, 1777	synonym
*Murex despectus*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym
*Murex subantiquatus*	Maton & Rackett, 1807	synonym
*Neptunea decemcostata clenchi*	A. H. Clarke, 1956	synonym
*Neptunea fasciata*	Jaeckel, 1952	synonym
*Tritonium fornicatum*	Fabricius O., 1780	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Bokmål (Norwegian): neptunsnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gekielde noordhoren sources: Adema, J.P.H.M.; de Bruyne, R.H.; Perk, F.A. (1989). Preliminary name list of marine molluscs and shells, regularly washed ashore along the coasts of the Netherlands and Belgium [Voorlopige naamlijst van de mariene mollusken en de regelmatig langs de kust van Nederland en België aangespoelde schelpensoorten]. De Strandvlo 9(2): 49-59

French: neptunée commune du Nord sources: Bousfield, E.L. 1964. Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. > Musée national du Canada, Ottawa. 89 p.

German: kantige Spindelschnecke sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee

Norwegian: neptunsnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Bokmål: neptunsnegl sources: Systema Naturae ed. 10: 754

Norwegian Nynorsk: neptunsnigel sources: Systema Naturae ed. 10: 754

Nynorsk (Norwegian): neptunsnigel

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
basis of record	Fraussen K. & Terryn Y. (2007). The Family Buccnidae. Genus Neptunea. In: A Conchological Iconography [Directed by Guido T. Poppe & Klaus Groh]. ConchBooks, Hackenheim, 159 pp., 154 pl.
additional source	Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Williams, J.D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
additional source	Costello, M.J.; Emblow, C.; White, R. (Ed.). (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-538-0. 463 pp.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.

Taxon found in 140 publications.

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Taxonomy

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External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (82 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Fraussen, K.; Gofas, S. (2014). Neptunea despecta (Linnaeus, 1758). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138923