Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Buccinoidea > Family Buccinidae > Subfamily Neptuneinae

Neptunea Röding, 1798

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

Barbitonia Dall, 1916 synonym
Chrysodomus Swainson, 1840 synonym
Chrysodomus (Barbitonia) Dall, 1916 synonym
Neptunea (Barbitonia) Dall, 1916 synonym; alternate representation
Neptunia Locard, 1886 synonym

Children

Neptunea antiqua (Linnaeus, 1758)
Neptunea arthritica (Valenciennes, 1858)
Neptunea communis (Middendorff, 1849)
Neptunea contraria (Linnaeus, 1771)
Neptunea decemcostata (Say, 1826)
Neptunea denselirata Brøgger, 1901
Neptunea despecta (Linnaeus, 1758)
Neptunea ventricosa (Gmelin, 1791)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: noordhorens

Literature

original description

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. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp.

additional source

Anonymous. (1941). The type of Neptunea "Bolten" Röding. The Nautilus. 54(4): 125-126.

additional source

Rehder, H. A. (1942). The genotype of Neptunea. The Nautilus. 56(2): 69.

additional source

Nelson, C. M. (1976). The type-species of Neptunea Röding, 1798 (Gastropoda: Buccinacea). The Nautilus. 90(4): 139-141.

taxonomy source

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.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Neptunea Röding, 1798. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137710

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Occurrence

 Present  Absent  Doubtful  Native  Introduced  Naturalised  Invasive  Managed  No data

Environment


marine, not brackish, not fresh, not terrestrial

Importance

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Last modified

2021-07-19 by Philippe Bouchet

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