Euchelus alabastrum

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Seguenzioidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Spiralia Cladus: Lophotrochozoa Phylum: Mollusca Classis: Gastropoda Subclassis: Vetigastropoda Ordo: Seguenziida Superfamilia: Seguenzioidea

Familia: Chilodontidae
Genus: Euchelus
Species: Euchelus alabastrum

Name

• Euchelus alabastrum (Reeve, 1858)

Type locality: Island of Diego Garcia.

Mentions

• Trochus (Euchele) alabastrum Reeve, 1858 in 1857–58: 209, pl. 38, figs 1a, b; Pilsbry, 1890 in 1889–90: 448.
• Euchelus alabastrum Pilsbry, 1890: 344.
• not Trochus alabastrum Beck ms Philippi 1847 in 1846–55: pl. 15, fig. 14; idem 1849 in 1846–55: 9 [= Margarita alabastrum Beck ms Lovén, 1846 = Calliostoma occidentale (Mighels & C.B. Adams, 1842)].

References

• Reeve, L. 1857–1858: Descriptions of seven new shells from the collection of the Hon. Sir David Barclay, of Port Louis, Mauritius. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 25 [1857]: 207–210. [The first part of this paper (pp. 207–208) was published in 1857 and the last part (pp. 209–210) in 1858 fide Duncan (1937)]