Haliotis iris Martyn, 1784

Dataset

GBIF Backbone Taxonomy

Rank

SPECIES

Published in

Martyn, Thomas. 1784. The universal conchologist, exhibiting the figure of every known shell, accurately drawn, and painted after nature, with a new systematic arrangement / Figures of non descript shells, collected in the different voyages to the South Seas since the year 1764. The author, London. Vol. 2: pls.41-80.

Classification

kingdom

Animalia

phylum

Mollusca

class

Gastropoda

order

Lepetellida

family

Haliotidae

genus

Haliotis

species

Haliotis iris

Name

Homonyms

Haliotis iris Gmelin, 1791

Haliotis iris Martyn, 1784

Bibliographic References

1. International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature. Opinion 479 Validation under the Plenary Powers of Specific Names for Nine species of the class Gastropoda Occurring in the New Zealand Area as published by Martyn (T.) in 1784 in the work entitled the Universal Conchologist (Opinion supplementary to Opinion 456).Opinions and declarations rendered by the International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature 16(22), 365-416 (1957)