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Bellerophon vasulites
Taxonomy
Bellerophon vasulites was named by de Montfort (1808). It is the type species of Bellerophon, Bellerophon (Bellerophon).
It was recombined as Bellerophon (Bellerophon) vasulites by Kase and Nishida (1986).
It was recombined as Bellerophon (Bellerophon) vasulites by Kase and Nishida (1986).
Subspecies
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1808 | Bellerophon vasulites de Montfort p. 50 |
| 1941 | Bellerophon vasulites Knight pp. 53 - 54 figs. pl. 11 f. 3a-e |
| 1986 | Bellerophon (Bellerophon) vasulites Kase and Nishida p. 77 |
| 1997 | Bellerophon vasulites Cook |
| 1998 | Bellerophon vasulites Frýda pp. 25 - 26 figs. pl. 1 f. 1-2 |
| 2001 | Bellerophon vasulites Heidelberger pp. 25 - 26 figs. pl. 1 f. 1-2 |
| 2023 | Bellerophon vasulites Wagner p. 3212 |
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†Bellerophon vasulites de Montfort 1808
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†Bellerophon (Bellerophon) vasulites glyptotaenius Radabaugh 1942
†Bellerophon (Bellerophon) vasulites homalotaenius Radabaugh 1942
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Diagnosis
| Reference | Diagnosis | |
|---|---|---|
| J. B. Knight 1941 | Moderately large, subglobular, narrowly phaneromphalous, spiral gastropods with rather broad, depressed, moderately involute whorls and a rather narrow, moderately deep slit giving rise to a dorsal selenizone; whorl profile rather gently arched dorsally, more strongly rounded on the sides, and turning sharply into the narrow umbilici; aperture broadly crescentic, its margins without flare anteriorly or laterally but flaring somewhat backward in the umbilical region and continuing across the parietal wall in an inductura which is moderately thickened marginally but rather strongly thickened at a point about one-quarter whorl back from the margin, the anterior margin with a rather broad, shallow sinus culminating in a moderately deep, narrow slit of approximately one-tenth whorl in depth, the slit giving rise to a dorsal selenizone; the selenizone slightly raised above the surface of the shell, bordered by very slight, shallow depressions, and in some specimens with stronger ornamentation with slightly nodelike lunulae; ornamentation transverse costae, sometimes in some specimens rather strong and regular, in others finer, slightly irregular, and slightly foliaceous; shell rather thick, its structure unknown. The holotype seems to have measured about 30 mm. in both dimensions. |