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RAS taxon details

Aforia Dall, 1889

AphiaID

196995 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196995)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Cochlespiridae A. W. B. Powell, 1942

Original name

Mangilia (Aforia) Dall, 1889

Direct children (6)

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Species Aforia goniodes (R. B. Watson, 1881)
Species Aforia hedleyi (Dell, 1990)
Species Aforia magnifica (Strebel, 1908)
Species Aforia multispiralis Dell, 1990
Species Aforia trilix (R. B. Watson, 1881)
Species Aforia gonoides [sic] accepted as Aforia goniodes (R. B. Watson, 1881) (misspelling)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Dall, W. H. (1889). Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25505
page(s): 10, 99 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aforia Dall, 1889. Accessed through: RAS (Eds.) (2025) Register of Antarctic Species at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196995 on 2026-08-22

Regional species database citation

RAS (Eds.) (2026). Register of Antarctic Species. Aforia Dall, 1889. Accessed at: https://ras.biodiversity.aq/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196995 on 2026-08-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-03-02 13:46:13Z

created

Appeltans, Ward

2009-12-02 08:40:23Z

changed

Tucker, John

2010-01-21 11:31:04Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-08-03 06:59:15Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-08-13 08:36:10Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2016-07-02 03:52:12Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Dall, W. H. (1889). Reports on the results of dredging, under the supervision of Alexander Agassiz, in the Gulf of Mexico (1877-78) and in the Caribbean Sea (1879-80), by the U.S. Coast Survey Steamer "Blake", Lieut.-Commander C.D. Sigsbee, U.S.N., and Commander J.R. Bartlett, U.S.N., commanding. XXIX. Report on the Mollusca. Part 2, Gastropoda and Scaphopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoölogy at Harvard College. 18: 1-492, pls. 10-40., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/25505
page(s): 10, 99 [details]

basis of record Kantor Y.I., Harasewych M.G. & Puillandre N. (2016). A critical review of Antarctic Conoidea (Neogastropoda). Molluscan Research. 36(3): 153-206., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2015.1128523 [details]

additional source Bouchet, P.; Kantor, Y. I.; Sysoev, A.; Puillandre, N. (2011). A new operational classification of the Conoidea (Gastropoda). Journal of Molluscan Studies. 77(3): 273-308., available online at http://mollus.oxfordjournals.org/content/77/3/273.full.pdf [details] Available for editors