WoRMS name details
Leuconia Gray, 1840
527257 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:527257)
unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of Leuconia Grant, 1833 [Porifera]; Leucopepla and Leucophytia are replacement names)
Genus
Voluta bidentata Montagu, 1808 accepted as Leucophytia bidentata (Montagu, 1808) (type by subsequent designation)
- Species Leuconia auricella (A. Férussac, 1821) accepted as Ellobium auricula (Bruguière, 1789) (unjustified emendation to original name Bulimus auricula Bruguiere, 1792.)
- Species Leuconia bidentata (Montagu, 1808) accepted as Leucophytia bidentata (Montagu, 1808) (invalid generic name)
- Species Leuconia bivonae (R. A. Philippi, 1841) accepted as Leucophytia bidentata (Montagu, 1808) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leuconia ciliata (Morelet, 1845) accepted as Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leuconia hemphillii Dall, 1884 accepted as Sayella hemphillii (Dall, 1884) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Leuconia micheli (Mittre, 1841) accepted as Leucophytia bidentata (Montagu, 1808) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Leuconia microstoma (Küster, 1844) accepted as Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801) (junior synonym)
- Species Leuconia obsoleta F. W. Hutton, 1878 accepted as Leuconopsis obsoleta (F. W. Hutton, 1878) (original combination)
- Species Leuconia occidentalis L. Pfeiffer, 1854 accepted as Microtralia ovulum (L. Pfeiffer, 1840)
- Species Leuconia sayi (Küster, 1844) accepted as Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801) (junior synonym)
- Species Leuconia succinea L. Pfeiffer, 1854 accepted as Creedonia succinea (L. Pfeiffer, 1854) (original combination)
- Species Leuconia alba (Montagu, 1803) (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Species Leuconia veneta Coen, 1914 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
feminine
(of Conovulus (Leuconia) Gray, 1840) Gray, J. E. (1840). <i>A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands by W. Turton</i>. A new edition. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. i-ix, 1-324, plates 1-12. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18243759
page(s): 227 [details]
page(s): 227 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Leuconia Gray, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=527257 on 2025-04-05
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(of Conovulus (Leuconia) Gray, 1840) Gray, J. E. (1840). <i>A manual of the land and freshwater shells of the British Islands by W. Turton</i>. A new edition. Longman, Orme, Brown, Green and Longmans, London. i-ix, 1-324, plates 1-12. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18243759
page(s): 227 [details]
page(s): 227 [details]
