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Fasciolaria gigantea Kiener, 1840 (currently Triplofusus giganteus; Mollusca, Gastropoda, FASCIOLARIIDAE): the correct name for the horse conch of the southeastern United States and Mexico

William G. Lyons, Harry G. Lee, “Fasciolaria gigantea Kiener, 1840 (currently Triplofusus giganteus; Mollusca, Gastropoda, FASCIOLARIIDAE): the correct name for the horse conch of the southeastern United States and Mexico”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 75, no. 1, pp. 195-203, 2018.

The horse conch of the southeastern United States and eastern Mexico has been a subject of intermittent nomenclatural controversy: Fasciolaria papillosa G.B. Sowerby I, 1825 vs. Fasciolaria gigantea Kiener, 1840. The original description of F. papillosa is very brief and is judged by some to be....

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Vaginulus Férussac, 1822, not Vaginula auctt. is the valid name for a genus of slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Systellommatophora, Veronicellidae)

Robert H. Cowie, Sheikh Sajan, Basudev Tripathy, Neal L. Evenhuis, “Vaginulus Férussac, 1822, not Vaginula auctt. is the valid name for a genus of slugs (Mollusca, Gastropoda, Systellommatophora, Veronicellidae)”, Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, vol. 78, pp. , 2021.

There has been, and to some extent remains, confusion over the valid genus name for a group of slugs in the family Veronicellidae, either  Vaginulus  Férussac, 1822 or  Vaginula  auctt., often cited as of Berthold, 1827 or sometimes as of Blainville, 1828. We show that  Vaginula  was first made available as an emendation....

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