WoRMS taxon details
Roxania Leach, 1847
137870 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137870)
accepted
Genus
Bulla cranchii J. Fleming, 1828 accepted as Roxania utriculus (Brocchi, 1814) (type by monotypy)
Abderospira Dall, 1896 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Atys (Roxania) Leach, 1847 · unaccepted
Bulla (Leucophysema) Dall, 1908 · unaccepted
Bullaria (Leucophysema) Dall, 1908 · unaccepted
Bullina (Abderospira) Dall, 1896 † · unaccepted
Damoniella Iredale, 1918 · unaccepted (Unnecessary replacement name for...)
Unnecessary replacement name for Roxania
Leucophysema Dall, 1908 · unaccepted
Roxania (Roxania) Leach, 1847 · unaccepted
Scaphander (Roxania) Leach, 1847 · unaccepted
- Species Roxania aequatorialis Thiele, 1925
- Species Roxania argoblysis (Rehder & Ladd, 1973)
- Species Roxania eburneola (Dall, 1927)
- Species Roxania hordacea (A. Adams, 1850)
- Species Roxania japonica (T. Habe, 1976)
- Species Roxania lithensis (Sturany, 1903)
- Species Roxania monterosatoi Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1896
- Species Roxania morgana (Dall, 1908)
- Species Roxania parvula (A. Adams, 1850)
- Species Roxania pinguicula (G. Seguenza, 1880)
- Species Roxania semilaevis (G. Seguenza, 1880)
- Species Roxania simillima Thiele, 1925
- Species Roxania smithae Á. Valdés, 2008
- Species Roxania utriculus (Brocchi, 1814)
- Subgenus Roxania (Acrostemma) Cossmann, 1889 accepted as Cylichna Lovén, 1846
- Subgenus Roxania (Mnestia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 accepted as Mnestia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Roxania (Roxania) Leach, 1847 accepted as Roxania Leach, 1847
- Subgenus Roxania (Sabatia) Bellardi, 1877 accepted as Sabatia Bellardi, 1877 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Roxania pacifica (T. Habe, 1956) accepted as Mimatys pacifica (T. Habe, 1956) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Roxania punctulata (A. Adams, 1862) accepted as Mimatys punctulatus (A. Adams, 1862) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Roxania subrotunda Monterosato, 1890 accepted as Roxania pinguicula (G. Seguenza, 1880)
- Species Roxania umbilicata (Habe, 1956) accepted as Mimatys umbilicatus (T. Habe, 1956)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Gray, J. E. (1847). The classification of the British Mollusca, by W. E. Leach, M.D. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (1) 20(133): 267-273. [published 1 October 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2278926
page(s): 268 [details]
page(s): 268 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Roxania Leach, 1847. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137870 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Gray, J. E. (1847). The classification of the British Mollusca, by W. E. Leach, M.D. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (1) 20(133): 267-273. [published 1 October 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2278926
page(s): 268 [details]
original description (of Damoniella Iredale, 1918) Iredale, T. (1918). Molluscan nomenclatural problems and solutions.- No. 1. <i>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London</i>. 13(1-2): 28-40., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15770868
page(s): 28, 37 [details]
original description (of Bulla (Leucophysema) Dall, 1908) Dall, W. H. (1908). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 43(6): 205-487, pls 1-22., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28878051
page(s): 244 [details]
original description (of Bullina (Abderospira) Dall, 1896 †) Dall, W. H. (1896). Diagnoses of new Tertiary fossils from the southern United States. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 18(1035): 21-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7733045
page(s): 32. [details]
basis of record Valdés, Á. (2008). Deep-sea "cephalaspidean" heterobranchs (Gastropoda) from the tropical southwest Pacific. In: Héros, V. et al. (eds) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 196: 587-792. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 268 [details]
original description (of Damoniella Iredale, 1918) Iredale, T. (1918). Molluscan nomenclatural problems and solutions.- No. 1. <i>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London</i>. 13(1-2): 28-40., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15770868
page(s): 28, 37 [details]
original description (of Bulla (Leucophysema) Dall, 1908) Dall, W. H. (1908). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology.</em> 43(6): 205-487, pls 1-22., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28878051
page(s): 244 [details]
original description (of Bullina (Abderospira) Dall, 1896 †) Dall, W. H. (1896). Diagnoses of new Tertiary fossils from the southern United States. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 18(1035): 21-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7733045
page(s): 32. [details]
basis of record Valdés, Á. (2008). Deep-sea "cephalaspidean" heterobranchs (Gastropoda) from the tropical southwest Pacific. In: Héros, V. et al. (eds) Tropical Deep-Sea Benthos 25. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle.</em> 196: 587-792. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Oskars T.R., Too C.C., Rees D., Mikkelsen P.M., Willassen E. & Malaquias M.A.E. (2019). A molecular phylogeny of the gastropod family Haminoeidae <i>sensu lato</i> (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea): a generic revision. <em>Invertebrate Systematics.</em> 33: 426-472., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is18051
page(s): 458 [details]
page(s): 458 [details]
Other
additional source
Ilyina L.B. (1993). Определитель морских средне-миоценовых гастропод Юго-Западной Евразии [= Handbook for identification of the marine Middle Miocene gastropods of southwestern Eurasia]. <em>Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta RAS.</em> 255: 1-151., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/bookfiles/geokniga-iljina1993opredmorsksrednemiotsengastropodjuvevraziipin255.djvu
page(s): 123 [details]
page(s): 123 [details]
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