WoRMS name details
Defrancia mauritiana G. B. Sowerby III, 1893
596292 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:596292)
unaccepted
Species
Defrancia Millet, 1827 accepted as Pleurotomoides Bronn, 1831
marine
Sowerby, G. B. III. (1893). Descriptions of fifteen new species of shells of the family Pleurotomidae. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1893: 487–492, pl. 38. (October)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30981554 [details]
Type locality contained in Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in Mauritian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Defrancia mauritiana G. B. Sowerby III, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=596292 on 2025-04-02
Date
action
by
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
Sowerby, G. B. III. (1893). Descriptions of fifteen new species of shells of the family Pleurotomidae. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1893: 487–492, pl. 38. (October)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30981554 [details]
basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]
basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Kilburn, R. N. (2009). Genus <i>Kermia</i> (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Conoidea: Conidae: Raphitominae) in South African Waters, with Observations on the Identities of Related Extralimital Species. <em>African Invertebrates.</em> 50(2): 217-236., available online at https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.050.0201 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
