WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Fissurella nubecula (Linnaeus, 1758)

Fissurella nubecula (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 139970

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Vetigastropoda (Subclass) > Fissurelloidea (Superfamily) > Fissurellidae (Family) > Fissurellinae (Subfamily) > Fissurella (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Fissurella Bruguière, 1789

Sources

original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100
page(s): 785 [details]

basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Gofas, S.; Afonso, J.P.; Brandào, M. (Ed.). (S.a.). Conchas e Moluscos de Angola = Coquillages et Mollusques d'Angola. [Shells and molluscs of Angola]. Universidade Agostinho / Elf Aquitaine Angola: Angola. 140 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Bernard, P.A. (Ed.) (1984). Coquillages du Gabon [Shells of Gabon]. Pierre A. Bernard: Libreville, Gabon. 140, 75 plates pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Environment

marine

Distribution

Angola [details]
Canaries [details]
Cape Verde [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Gabon [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Senegal (not certain) [details]
Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Africa [details]
Zembra [details]

Links

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (46 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To PESI

Note

Habitat: all the rocky shores [details]

Images

Fissurella nubecula
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam (

)
qualitystatus: not checked

Fissurella nubecula (Linnaeus, 1758).
Shell from Salammbô, Tunisia, actual size 26 mm.
added on 2012-12-26 - author: Antit, Mouna
qualitystatus: checked by Gofas, Serge on 2012-12-26 22:38:45

Fissurella nubecula (Linné, 1758).
Juvenile specimens from La Goulette, Tunisia (among algae, 24.12.2009), actual size 3.4 mm (B,C) and 1.5 mm (D,E)
added on 2012-12-26 - author: Antit, Mouna
qualitystatus: checked by Gofas, Serge on 2012-12-26 22:43:37

Fissurella nubecula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Specimen from Calahonda, Málaga, Spain (actual size 19.5 mm)
added on 2013-02-14 - author: Gofas, Serge
qualitystatus: checked by Gofas, Serge on 2013-02-14 11:41:15

LSID

urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139970

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	Gofas, Serge
2006-03-14 13:13:24Z	changed	Mussai, Prakash
2008-05-17 14:57:54Z	checked	Gofas, Serge

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Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Fissurella nubecula (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139970 on 2013-06-20

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