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Dolomena Plicata
''Dolomena plicata'', common name the pigeon conch, is a species of medium-sized to large sea snail, a marine gastropod The gastropods (), commonly known as snails and slugs, belong to a large taxonomic class of invertebrates within the phylum Mollusca called Gastropoda (). This class comprises snails and slugs from saltwater, from freshwater, and from land. T ... mollusk in the family (biology), family Strombidae, the true conchs. ;Subspecies: * ''Dolomena plicata sibbaldi'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842) (synonyms: ''Dolomena sibbaldi'' (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842); ''Strombus kieneri'' Issel & Tapparone Canefri, 1876; ''Strombus sibbaldi'' G. B. Sowerby II, 1842 (original combination) ) * ''Dolomena plicata yerburyi'' (E. A. Smith, 1891) (synonym: ''Strombus yerburyi'' E. A. Smith, 1891 ) Description The shell size varies between 45 mm and 77 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Red Sea and in the Indian Ocean off East Africa. References * Walls, J.G. (1980). ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Friedrich Röding
Peter Friedrich Röding (17 June 1767 – 8 June 1846) was a German malacologist who lived in Hamburg. Very little is known about this naturalist. Many of Röding's descriptions (often simply a German rendition of the Latin binomial name) are of species which were first named by earlier authors such as Johann Hieronymus Chemnitz, Friedrich Wilhelm Martini and Martin Lister. Röding's references to pre-existing descriptions and figures make these names also valid, since they are unequivocally recognizable, and were (after Röding) subsequently adopted by many later authors. Museum Boltenianum He was the principal author of a 1798 catalogue of an important mollusc collection. The catalogue was entitled ''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'' and was published in Hamburg. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |