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Purple Coral Snail

Coralliophila violacea (Kiener 1836)

Scientific Names

Preferred Names

Coralliophila violacea (Kiener 1836)
Species recognized by EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Coralliophila violacea
Recognized by Moorea Biocode and Furui 2020
Coralliophila violacea (Kiener 1836)
Coralliophila violacea Kiener (1836)
Recognized by IABIN
Coralliophila violacea Kiener 1836
Coralliophila neritoidea
Species recognized by Paleobiology Database
Pyrula neritoidea
Species recognized by wikidata_hierarchy tar gz

Alternative Names

Coralliophila neritoidea (Gmelin 1791)
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Fusus neritoideus (Gmelin 1791)
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Murex neritoideus Chemnitz 1788
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Murex neritoideus Gmelin 1791
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Purpura violacea Kiener 1836
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Pyrula neritoidea (Gmelin 1791)
Not accepted according to EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022
Reference taxon from World Register of Marine Species
Coralliophila neritoidea (Gmelin 1791)
Coralliophila neritoides
Synonym according to NCBI
Fusus neritoideus (Gmelin 1791)
Murex neritoideus Chemnitz 1788
Murex neritoideus Gmelin 1791
Purpura violacea Kiener 1836
Pyrula neritoidea (Gmelin 1791)
Coralliophila (Coralliophila) violacea (Kiener 1836)
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Coralliophila neritoidea (Gmelin 1791)
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2 - Test
Coralliophila neritoidea (Gmelin 1791)
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Fusus neritoideus
Recombined according to Paleobiology Database
Fusus neritoideus (Gmelin 1791)
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2 - Test
Fusus neritoideus (Gmelin 1791)
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Murex neritoideus Chemnitz 1788
Ambiguous synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Murex neritoideus Chemnitz 1788
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2 - Test
Murex neritoideus Gmelin 1791
Ambiguous synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Murex neritoideus Gmelin 1791
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2 - Test
Purpura violacea Kiener 1836
Ambiguous synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023
Purpura violacea Kiener 1836
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2 - Test
Pyrula neritoidea (Gmelin 1791)
Not accepted according to Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2 - Test
Pyrula neritoidea (Gmelin 1791)
Synonym according to Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023

Common Names

English

purple coral snail preferred
violet coral shell
violet coralsnail

Chinese

紫口珊瑚螺 preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names

Japanese

クチムラサキサンゴヤドリ preferred
Recognized by Furui 2020 and Wikidata Common Names

Zh Tw

紫口珊瑚螺 preferred
Recognized by Wikidata Common Names
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Curated hierarchies for Coralliophila violacea (Kiener 1836)

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy April 2022

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Protostomia
Spiralia
Mollusca
Gastropoda Cuvier 1795
Caenogastropoda Cox 1960
Neogastropoda Wenz 1938
Muricoidea Rafinesque 1815
Muricidae Rafinesque 1815
Coralliophilinae Chenu 1859
Coralliophila H. Adams & A. Adams 1853
12 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.

Catalogue of Life 7 February 2023

Biota
Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda Cuvier 1795
Caenogastropoda L. R. Cox 1960
Neogastropoda Wenz 1938
Muricoidea Rafinesque 1815
Muricidae Rafinesque 1815
Coralliophilinae Chenu 1859
Coralliophila H. Adams & A. Adams 1853
17 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.

Dynamic Hierarchy Version 2.2 - Test

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Protostomia
Spiralia
Mollusca
Gastropoda Cuvier 1795
Caenogastropoda Cox 1960
Neogastropoda Wenz 1938
Muricoidea Rafinesque 1815
Muricidae Rafinesque 1815
Coralliophilinae Chenu 1859
Coralliophila H. Adams & A. Adams 1853
12 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.

EOL Dynamic Hierarchy 1.1

Life
Cellular Organisms
Eukaryota
Opisthokonta
Metazoa
Bilateria
Protostomia
Spiralia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricoidea
Muricidae
Coralliophila
7 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.

GBIF classification

Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Coralliophila H. Adams & A. Adams 1853
26 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.

wikidata_hierarchy tar gz

Biota
Eukaryota
Unikonta
Opisthokonta
Holozoa
Filozoa
Apoikozoa
Animalia
Eumetazoa
Bilateria
Protostomia
Lophotrochozoa
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Orthogastropoda
Caenogastropoda
Neogastropoda
Coralliophilidae
Coralliophila
34 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.

World Register of Marine Species

Animalia
Mollusca
Gastropoda
Neogastropoda
Muricidae
Coralliophila
22 additional siblings truncated for brevity.
See the resource file for a full list.