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Lacuna pallidula (da Costa, 1778)

140168  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140168)

accepted
Species
Lacuna neritoidea A. Gould, 1840 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Lacuna pallidula neritoidea A. Gould, 1840 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Lacuna pallidula var. patula Hanley in Thorpe, 1844 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Lacuna patula Thorpe, 1844 · unaccepted (synonym)
Stenotis pallidula (da Costa, 1778) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)

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(of Cochlea pallidula da Costa, 1778) Da Costa, E. M. (1778). <i>Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology</i>; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783 [details]  OpenAccess publication 
Distribution Greenland to Connecticut; Europe  
Distribution Greenland to Connecticut; Europe [details]

Taxonomy Nordsieck (1968) and Janssen (1975) both position Lacuna pallidula (Da Costa, 1778) in the genus: Stenotis A. Adams, 1863....  
Taxonomy Nordsieck (1968) and Janssen (1975) both position Lacuna pallidula (Da Costa, 1778) in the genus: Stenotis A. Adams, 1863. However, no convincing arguments for this placement exist and as such we'd rather follow the majority of others in using Lacuna[details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Lacuna pallidula (da Costa, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140168 on 2024-03-19
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original description  (of Lacuna neritoidea A. Gould, 1840) Gould, A. A. (1840). Descriptions of thirteen new species of shells. <em>American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> (1) 38: 196-197., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30966509
page(s): 197. [details]   

original description  (of Lacuna pallidula var. patula Hanley in Thorpe, 1844) Thorpe C. (1844). <i>British marine conchology; Being a descriptive catalogue, arranged according to the Lamarckian system, of the salt water shells of Great Britain</i>. London: Edward Lumley. l + 267 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11639230 [details]   

original description  (of Cochlea pallidula da Costa, 1778) Da Costa, E. M. (1778). <i>Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology</i>; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783 [details]  OpenAccess publication 

original description  (of Lacuna patula Thorpe, 1844) Thorpe C. (1844). <i>British marine conchology; Being a descriptive catalogue, arranged according to the Lamarckian system, of the salt water shells of Great Britain</i>. London: Edward Lumley. l + 267 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11639230 [details]   

original description  (of Lacuna pallidula var. albescens Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 352 [details]   

original description  (of Lacuna pallidula var. naticiformis J. T. Marshall, 1893) Marshall, J. T. (1893-1894). Additions to 'British Conchology' [Part 1]. <em>Journal of Conchology.</em> 7: 241-265 [October 1893], 379-385 [April 1894]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31573735
page(s): 250 [details]   

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]   

additional source Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Reid, D. G. (1989). The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. <em>Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B.</em> 324: 1-110., available online at https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rstb.1989.0040 [details]   

additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Dimensions maximum size of 6 mm  [details]

Distribution Greenland to Connecticut; Europe [details]

Habitat intertidal and infralittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Taxonomy Nordsieck (1968) and Janssen (1975) both position Lacuna pallidula (Da Costa, 1778) in the genus: Stenotis A. Adams, 1863. However, no convincing arguments for this placement exist and as such we'd rather follow the majority of others in using Lacuna[details]
LanguageName 
Danish lavspiret grubesnegl  [details]
Dutch bleke scheefhoren  [details]
English pallid lacunapallid chink snailpallid chink shellpale lacuna  [details]
French lacune pâle  [details]
German Flache Grübchenschnecke  [details]
Swedish blek lagunsnäcka  [details]