IRMNG - Philobrya Carpenter, 1872

IRMNG taxon details

Philobrya Carpenter, 1872

IRMNG_ID

1299014 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1299014)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Philobryidae Bernard, 1897

Synonymised names

Briophila Fischer, 1886 · unaccepted

Bryophila Carpenter, 1864 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)

invalid: junior homonym of Bryophila Treitschke, 1825 [Lepidoptera]; Philobrya is a replacement name

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Species Philobrya acutangula (Powell, 1935)
Species Philobrya atlantica Dall, 1896
Species Philobrya capillata Dell, 1964
Species Philobrya cuboides Verco, 1907
Species Philobrya fimbriata Tate, 1898
Species Philobrya inconspicua Olsson & McGinty, 1958
Species Philobrya inornata Hedley, 1904
Species Philobrya laevis Thiele, 1912
Species Philobrya meleagrina (Bernard, 1896)
Species Philobrya meridionalis (E.A. Smith, 1885)
Species Philobrya modiolus Suter, 1913 †
Species Philobrya munita (Finlay, 1930)
Species Philobrya obesa (Powell, 1958)
Species Philobrya olstadi (Soot-Ryen, 1951)
Species Philobrya pinctada (Finlay, 1930)
Species Philobrya quadrata (Pfeffer in Martens & Pfeffer, 1886)
Species Philobrya recapitula Hedley, 1906
Species Philobrya sculpturalis (Dell, 1956)
Species Philobrya setosa (Carpenter, 1864)
Species Philobrya squamea (Hedley, 1905)
Species Philobrya sublaevis Pelseneer, 1903
Species Philobrya wandelensis Lamy, 1906

Environment

marine

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Smithson. Misc. Coll., No. 252, Index of Spp.
page(s): 21 [details]

Descriptive notes

Taxonomic remark n.n. pro Bryophila Carpenter 1864 (Nomen. Zool.).

Taxonomic remark n.n. pro Bryophila Carpenter 1864 (Nomen. Zool.). [details]

Taxonomic citation

IRMNG (2025). Philobrya Carpenter, 1872. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1299014 on 2026-06-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-09-20 22:00:00Z

created

Rees, Tony

2011-12-31 23:00:00Z

changed

Rees, Tony

[taxonomic tree]

[clear cache]

original description Smithson. Misc. Coll., No. 252, Index of Spp.
page(s): 21 [details]

basis of record SN2000/Boss, 1982 [details]

basis of record Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

name verified source Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details]

current name source CoL 2006 [details]

extant flag source Sepkoski, J. J., Jr. (2002). A compendium of fossil marine animal genera. <em>Bulletins of American Paleontology.</em> 363: 1-560., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10698313 [details]

habitat flag source Aphia 2006 [details]

original description (of Briophila Fischer, 1886) Fischer, P.H. (1880–1887). Manuel de conchyliologie et de paléontologie conchyliologique ou Histoire naturelle des mollusques vivants et fossiles suivi d'un appendice sur les brachiopodes. Librairie F. Savy, Paris; 1369 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47340
page(s): 964 [details]

original description (of Bryophila Carpenter, 1864) Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., (3) 13
page(s): 314 [details]

Unreviewed

Descriptive info Includes marine species (Aphia 2006). Marine, extant (?) + fossil: Tertiary to Recent (Sepkoski 2002) [details]

Taxonomic remark n.n. pro Bryophila Carpenter 1864 (Nomen. Zool.). [details]

To BioNames database (from synonym Bryophila Carpenter, 1864)
To ION (Index to Organism Names) (from synonym Bryophila Carpenter, 1864)
To WoRMS (from synonym Bryophila Carpenter, 1864)