MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Lophyrus Poli, 1791

ERMS name details

Lophyrus Poli, 1791

AphiaID

152780 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152780)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Stenosemus Middendorff, 1847

Rank

Genus

Parent

Stenosemusidae Sirenko & Schwabe, 2026

Original name

Lophyrus Poli, 1791

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Species Lophyrus albus (Linnaeus, 1767) accepted as Stenosemus albus (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Lophyrus exaratus G. O. Sars, 1878 accepted as Stenosemus exaratus (G. O. Sars, 1878) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Lophyrus melphictensis Poli, 1791 accepted as Lepidochitona (Lepidochitona) caprearum (Scacchi, 1836) represented as Lepidochitona caprearum (Scacchi, 1836) (name introduced in synonymy, not available)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Poli J.X. (1791). Testacea utriusque Siciliae eorumque historia et anatome tabulis aeneis illustrata. Ex Regio Typographeio, Parmae. Vol. 1: pp. i-lxxiii, [1-6], i-x, 1-90, 1-50, [1], 1-74, pls 1-18. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44019471
page(s): 1: 2 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Lophyrus Poli, 1791. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152780 on 2026-09-07

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Lophyrus Poli, 1791. Accessed at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152780 on 2026-09-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-14 07:47:17Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2017-02-04 17:14:52Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-09-02 02:47:52Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2022-08-16 09:55:08Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

2026-02-05 18:44:04Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2026-07-02 02:54:19Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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Sources (3)

original description Poli J.X. (1791). Testacea utriusque Siciliae eorumque historia et anatome tabulis aeneis illustrata. Ex Regio Typographeio, Parmae. Vol. 1: pp. i-lxxiii, [1-6], i-x, 1-90, 1-50, [1], 1-74, pls 1-18. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/44019471
page(s): 1: 2 [details]

additional source Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): 113 [details]

source of synonymy Sirenko B.I. (2017). Deep-sea chitons of the genus Stenosemus (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) from Fiji and Solomon Islands. Ruthenica. 27(1): 1-14., available online at https://ruthenica.net/sites/default/files/2020-02/vol27_001-014_Sirenko.pdf [details]