Hi Anne,

Turbinella pyrum was described as Voluta pyrum by Linnaeus in the 12th
edition of Systema Naturae, volume 1, part 2, 1767. Thus the correct
name is Turbinella pyrum (Linnaeus, 1767).

All the best,
James

On Mon, Feb 9, 2015 at 11:18 AM, Susan J. Hewitt and/or Ed Subitzky
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> If you always go with WoRMS , you will be right more than 99% of the time;
> many of the best taxonomists in the world work on perfecting the WoRMS
> listings. Some ordinary sites probably don’t even realize that Linnaeus 1758
> was not the only publication by Linnaeus.
>
> As for Turbinella pyrum pyrum, that is the “nominate subspecies”. There is
> no point in even mentioning the nominate subspecies unless you need to
> discriminate it from the other named subspecies. All the subspecies
> including the nominate subspecies are Turbinella pyrum.
>
> Susan
>
>
> On Feb 9, 2015, at 10:54 AM, [log in to unmask]
> wrote:
>
> Hi everyone,
>
> I am working on Turbinella pyrum,  and have run in to a  question on it.  In
> looking up the proper name for this shell,  I have discovered that on sites
> such as WORMS, and a couple others, the author is listed as ( Linnaeus,
> 1767) , and on some sites the date is different, ( Linnaeus, 1758) . All the
> dealers who have this for sale list the 1758 date., as do all my data slips.
>
> Also, on some sites the name is listed as Turbinella pyrum, , on some other
> sites as Turbinella pyrum pyrum..It is the exact same shell to me.
>
> So, my question is which name and which date should be  used??
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Anne Joffe
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