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Neptunea

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Neptunea sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Neptunea sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Neptunea sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Neptunea sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Neptunea sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Neptunea sp.

Barreiro e Lavradio, Barreiro, Setúbal, Portugal

Description

Neptunea is a genus of large sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks in the family Buccinidae, the true whelks.

From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptunea, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0.

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	2304655	https://www.gbif.org/species/2304655
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	11417	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=11417

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : Neptunea

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Spiralia
superphylum	Lophotrochozoa
phylum	Mollusca	Linnaeus 1758
class	Gastropoda	Cuvier 1797
subclass	Prosobranchia	Milne-Edwards 1848
superorder	Caenogastropoda	Cox 1959
order	Neogastropoda	Thiele 1929
superfamily	Buccinoidea	(Rafinesque 1815)
family	Buccinidae	Rafinesque 1815
subfamily	Buccininae	Rafinesque 1815
tribe	Colini	Gray 1857
genus	Neptunea	Röding 1798

Scientific Name

Neptunea Röding, 1798

Name Published In

Röding, Peter F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum, sive, Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Fried. Bolten. Johan. Christi. Trappii, Hamburgi.: pt.2: , , 1-199.

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Neptunea	subgenus	belongs to Trophon	stated without evidence	Oldroyd, 1925
Neptunea	genus	belongs to Neptuneidae	stated without evidence	Marincovich, 1988
Neptunea	genus	belongs to Neptuneinae	stated without evidence	Titova, 1994
Neptunea	genus	belongs to Neogastropoda	second hand	Sepkoski, 2002

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

6 (55%)

First Recorded Appearance

105 - 94 Ma
Cretaceous

Motility

actively mobile (based on Buccinidae)

Vision

limited (based on Gastropoda)

Diet

carnivore (based on Buccinidae)

Taphonomy

aragonite (based on Gastropoda)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

J. J. Sepkoski, Jr. 2002. A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology 363:1-560

Common Name(s)

Noordhorens

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neptunea

Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Neptunea (Neptunea) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		14	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Neptunea (Sulcosipho) subgenus	listed (PBDB)		9	20.4 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Neptunea acutispiralis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea alabaster species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea alaquaensis ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Neptunea alexeyevi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea altispira species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)
Neptunea amianta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea antiqua species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea arata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea arthritica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea aurigena species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea beringiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea borealis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea bulbacea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea communis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea constricta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea contraria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea convexa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea costaria species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea cumingii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea cuspidis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea cybaea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea decemcostata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea denselirata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea despecta species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	0.13 Ma Pleistocene	0 Ma Extant
Neptunea diminuta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea elegantula species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea ennae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea eulimata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea excelsior species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea frater species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea fukueae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea gracilis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea gulbini species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea gyroscopoides species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea hedychra species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea heros species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea hesperica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea hiberna species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea hoffmannii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea humboldtiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea insularis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea intersculpta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea inversa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea ithia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea jagudinae species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea kuroshio species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea labradorensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea laeva species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea lamellosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea laticostata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea lyrata species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		9	16.0 Ma Miocene	0 Ma Extant
Neptunea magnanimita species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea maxfieldii species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea meridionalis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea middendorffiana species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea mikawaensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea modestoidea ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		7	37.2 Ma Eocene	33.9 Ma Oligocene
Neptunea multistriata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea nivea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea nodositella species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea occaecata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea ochotensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea oncodes species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea perforata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea pericochleon species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea phoenicea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea polycostata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea ponderosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea pribiloffensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea purpurea species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea recurva species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea robusta species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea rugosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea smirnia species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea stilesi species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea stonei ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		4	2.59 Ma Pleistocene	0.01 Ma Pleistocene
Neptunea subdilatata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea tabulata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea tuberculata species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea umbratica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea varicifera species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea ventricosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea vinlandica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea vinosa species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Neptunea vladivostokensis species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB

Obsolete Names

Name	Source	Taxon Rank	Taxonomy
Sulcosipho Dall, 1916	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : *Sulcosipho*
Neputunea Nomura & Zinbô, 1935	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : *Neputunea*
Neptunia Locard, 1886	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : *Neptunia*
Chrysostomus Swainson, 1840	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : *Chrysostomus*
Crysodomus Toldo, 1890	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : *Crysodomus*
Neptunaea Hutton, 1877	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : *Neptunaea*
Chrysodomus Swainson, 1840	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : *Chrysodomus*
Golikovia Habe & Sato, 1973	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : *Golikovia*
Barbitonia Dall, 1916	GBIF	genus	Animalia : Mollusca : Gastropoda : Neogastropoda : Buccinidae : *Barbitonia*

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1798	Neptunea Röding
1925	Trophon (Neptunea) Oldroyd p. 13
1988	Neptunea Marincovich p. 17
1994	Neptunea Titova p. 322
2002	Neptunea Sepkoski, Jr.

References

Sepkoski, Jr. J. J. (2002) A compendium of fossil marine animal genera, Bulletins of American Paleontology 363, 1-560

Oldroyd T. S. (1925) The fossils of the Lower San Pedro fauna of the Nob Hill cut, San Pedro, California, Proceedings of the United States National Museum 65 2535, 1-39 doi:10.5479/si.00963801.65-2535.1

Marincovich L. (1988) Recognition of an earliest Middle Miocene warm-water event in a southestern Alaskan molluscan fauna, Saito-Ho-on Kai Special Publication 1, 1-24

Titova L. V. (1994) Cenozoic history of Turritelloidea and Buccinoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the North Pacific, Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology 108, 319-334

Aphia2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

CoL2006 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Mus. Bolten., 2 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. Bulletins of American Paleontology. 363, 1-560. - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

SN2000/Bouchet et al., 2001 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Fraussen K. & Terryn Y. (2007). The family Buccinidae. Genus Neptunea. In: A Conchological Iconography [Directed by Guido T. Poppe & Klaus Groh]. ConchBooks, Hackenheim. 159 pp., 154 pls. - via World Register of Marine Species

Bolton, J. F.; Dall, W. H. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens conchylia sive Testacea, univalvia, Bivalvia & multivalvia. Johan. Christi. Trappii, Hamburg. i-viii, 1-199. - via World Register of Marine Species

Karlsson, Anna (2004) Mollusker - via Dyntaxa. Svensk taxonomisk databas

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Hamburg: Trapp. viii, 199 pp. - via World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS)

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