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

Neptunea antiqua (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 antiquus*	Linnaeus, 1758	basionym
*Fusus antiquus*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Fusus antiquus var. alba*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Fusus antiquus var. gracilis*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Fusus antiquus var. striata*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Fusus antiquus var. ventricosa*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Murex antiquus*	Linnaeus, 1758	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: rødkonk sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: gewone noordhoren; noordhoren sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: red whelk sources: Lindner, G. (1999). Schelpengids: schelpen uit de wereldzeeën, vorm, voorkomen, systematiek [The shell guide: shells from the world oceans, shape, distribution and systematics]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-409-3. 320 pp.

English-United States: Red Whelk sources: Charles Hussey

German: gemeine Spindelschnecke; Spindelschnecke sources: Unterwasser-Welt Ostsee;Lindner, G. (1999). Schelpengids: schelpen uit de wereldzeeën, vorm, voorkomen, systematiek [The shell guide: shells from the world oceans, shape, distribution and systematics]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-409-3. 320 pp.

Swedish: neptunussnäcka

Literature

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	Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (110 publications)
Marine Life Information Network - UK
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
GenBank (8 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Fraussen, K.; Gofas, S. (2014). Neptunea antiqua (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:138920