Genus Cymatium Röding, 1798
- Cymatium Röding, P.F. 1798. Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturae quae olim collegerat Joa. Hamburg : Trappii 199 pp. [Date published September 1798] [129].
Type species:
Murex femorale Linnaeus, 1758 by subsequent designation. - Lotorium Montfort, P.D. de 1810. Conchyliologie Systematique, et Classification Methodique des Coquilles. Paris : F. Schoell Tome 2 676 + 16 pp. [582, 583] [Lotorium lotor is a substitute name for Murex lotorium Linnaeus, 1758].
Type species:
Lotorium lotor Montfort, 1810 by monotypy (Murex femorale Linnaeus, 1758). - Tritocurrus Lesson, R.P. 1842. Trito curris (sic) amphytridis, Lesson, Realejo (Centre-Amérique). L'Echo du Monde Savant ser. 2 6: Columns 65-66 [column 65] [L'Echo du Monde Savant, Année 9, Semestre 2(3): column 63; recent, Panamic western Atlantic].
Type species:
Trito curris (sic) amphytridis Lesson, 1842 by monotypy (Triton tigrinum Broderip, 1833). - Nyctilochus Gistel, J. 1848. Naturgeschichte des Thierreichs für höhere schulen bearbeitet. Stuttgart xvi 216 pp., 32 pls. [11] [established as a substitute name for Triton [attributed by Gistel to Broderip, 1835], non Linnaeus, 1758 [Amphibia]].
Type species:
Triton tigrinum Broderip, 1833 by subsequent designation.
Introduction
The genus Cymatium was placed on the Official List by Opinion 1650, 1991, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 48(3): 258. Cymatium Link, 1807 [Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock, 3: 119] is listed in Neave, 1939, Nomenclator Zoologicus, 1: 931, as a separate name, but appears to be a misapplication of the same name; recent, Western Atlantic
Distribution
Extra Distribution Information
Cosmopolitan
General References
Beu, A.G. 1998. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae. A monograph of the New Caledonian fauna, with revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris [1936-1950] 178: 1-256 [73]
History of changes
Note that this list may be incomplete for dates prior to September 2013.
| Published | As part of group | Action Date | Action Type | Compiler(s) |
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| 01-Jun-2021 | TONNOIDEA | 13-Nov-2015 | MODIFIED | Mr Des Beechey (AM) Ms Anouk Mututantri (AM) |
| 08-Mar-2012 | MODIFIED |