WoRMS taxon details
Limopsis aurita (Brocchi, 1814)
AphiaID: 140252
AphiaID: 140252
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Arcoida (Order) > Limopsoidea (Superfamily) > Limopsidae (Family) > Limopsis (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||
| Parent | Limopsis Sassi, 1827 | |||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Arca aurita Brocchi, 1814 (original combination) Limopsis aurita paucidentata Dall, 1886 | |||||||
| Sources |
original description: Brocchi G. B. (1814). Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli Apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Milano Vol. I: pp. LXXX + 56 + 240; Vol. II, p. 241-712, pl. 1-16 page(s): p. 485; pl. 11 fig. 9 [details] [full text] basis of record: Huber M. (2010) Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world’s marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. [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: Ardovini, R.; Cossignani, T. (2004). West African seashells (including Azores, Madeira and Canary Is.) = Conchiglie dell'Africa Occidentale (incluse Azzorre, Madeira e Canarie). English-Italian edition. L'Informatore Piceno: Ancona, Italy. ISBN 88-86070-11-X. 319 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Limopsis aurita paucidentata Dall, 1886 accepted as Limopsis aurita (Brocchi, 1814) | |||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||
| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Cuba [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Mauritania [details] Puerto Rico [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (163 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To PESI To ITIS | |||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Type of larval development: short planktonic (non-planktotrophic) inferred from prodissoconch morphology (Malchus & Warén, 2005) [details] Diagnosis: Shell up to 15 mm in height, solid, variable in shape from almost circular to obliquely oval, with a straight dorsal margin. Umbo small but prominent, situated in the middle of the hinge line. Ligament small, situated in a triangular resilifer below the umbo. Sculpture of flat comarginal cords, much wider than the interspaces, and fine radial striae, mostly marked in the interspaces of the cords. Hinge plate wide and arched, with 8 anterior and about 9 posterior teeth, both series decreasing in size towards the umbo, where they may even be superimposed in large specimens. Inner margin of valves smooth, beveled to a flat contact surface between valves. Exterior of shell dirty white. Periostracum forming yellowish-brown, hairy projections which are arranged radially, becoming more dense and longer near the margins. [details] Distribution: Eastern Atlantic, from Iceland and Norway to southern Morocco, also in the Canary Islands and the Azores; Mediterranean. Western Atlantic, from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Gorringe, Ampère, Josephine and Seine seamounts, common in 180-545 m; not found in the Meteor group seamounts. [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Type locality: Northern Italy (Pliocene fossil) [details] | |||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140252 | |||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Limopsis aurita (Brocchi, 1814). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140252 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||
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