WoRMS taxon details
Petaloconchus varians (A. d'Orbigny, 1839)
419554 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:419554)
accepted
Species
Petaloconchus myrakeenae Absalão & Rios, 1987 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Vermetus varians A. d'Orbigny, 1839 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Vermetus varians A. d'Orbigny, 1839) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): pl. 54, figs. 7-10 [details]
page(s): pl. 54, figs. 7-10 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Petaloconchus varians (A. d'Orbigny, 1839). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=419554 on 2025-04-04
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Petaloconchus myrakeenae Absalão & Rios, 1987) Absalao, R. S. & Rios, E. C. (1987). <i>Petaloconchus myrakeenae</i>, a new species of Vermetidae from Brazilian waters (Molusca [sic]: Gastropoda). <em>Revista Brasileira de Biologia.</em> 47 (3): 415-418.
page(s): 415-418, figs.1-5 [details]
original description (of Vermetus varians A. d'Orbigny, 1839) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): pl. 54, figs. 7-10 [details]
basis of record Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 <i>in:</i> Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] Available for editors
[request]
basis of record Breves, A.; De Paula, T. S.; Spotorno, P.; Fernandes, M. R.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Pimenta, A. D. (2022). Living in solitude or building reefs: ecophenotypic variation of the vermetid <i>Petaloconchus varians</i> revealed by mitochondrial DNA analysis. <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 88(4): DOI 10.1093/mollus/eyac030., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyac030 [details]
page(s): 415-418, figs.1-5 [details]
original description (of Vermetus varians A. d'Orbigny, 1839) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). <i>Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833</i>. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): pl. 54, figs. 7-10 [details]
basis of record Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 <i>in:</i> Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Breves, A.; De Paula, T. S.; Spotorno, P.; Fernandes, M. R.; Lôbo-Hajdu, G.; Pimenta, A. D. (2022). Living in solitude or building reefs: ecophenotypic variation of the vermetid <i>Petaloconchus varians</i> revealed by mitochondrial DNA analysis. <em>Journal of Molluscan Studies.</em> 88(4): DOI 10.1093/mollus/eyac030., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyac030 [details]
Other
additional source
Golding, R. E.; Bieler, R.; Rawlings, T. A.; Collins, T. M. (2014). Deconstructing <i>Dendropoma</i>: a systematic revision of a world-wide worm-snail group with descriptions of new genera (Caenogastropoda: Vermetidae). <em>Malacologia.</em> 57(1): 1-97.
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 9 [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) (from synonym Vermetus varians A. d'Orbigny, 1839)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Petaloconchus varians)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 17 proteins) (from synonym Vermetus varians A. d'Orbigny, 1839)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) (from synonym Vermetus varians A. d'Orbigny, 1839)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Petaloconchus varians)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 17 proteins) (from synonym Vermetus varians A. d'Orbigny, 1839)
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 17 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
