WoRMS taxon details
Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 140403
AphiaID: 140403
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Neogastropoda (Order) > Muricoidea (Superfamily) > Muricidae (Family) > Ocenebrinae (Subfamily) > Nucella (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Nucella Röding, 1798 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Buccinum filosa Gmelin, 1791 (synonym) Buccinum lapillus Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Nassa ligata Röding, 1798 (synonym) Nassa rudis Roding, 1798 (synonym) Nucella theobroma Roding, 1798 (synonym) Purpura buccinoidea Blainville, 1829 (synonym) Purpura imbricata Lamarck, 1822 (synonym) Purpura lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) Purpura lapillus var. anomala Middendorff, 1849 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. aurantia Dautzenberg, 1887 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. bizonalis Lamarck, 1822 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. caerulescens Dautzenberg, 1920 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. castanea Dautzenberg, 1887 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. celtica Locard, 1886 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. citrina Dautzenberg, 1920 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. crassissima Dautzenberg, 1887 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. fauce-violaceo Dautzenberg, 1887 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. fusco-apicata Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1925 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. lactea Dautzenberg, 1887 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. major Jeffreys, 1867 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. minor Jeffreys, 1867 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. mixta Dautzenberg, 1920 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. monozonalis Dautzenberg, 1920 (synonym) Purpura lapillus var. ponderosa Verkrüzen, 1881 (synonym) Purpura lineolata Dautzenberg, 1887 (synonyms) Thais lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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 [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: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p. [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details] additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Cuvelier, Daphne (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Brandy Cove [details] Brier Island [details] Cobscook Bay [details] De Panne (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Deadmans Harbour [details] Digby [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] German Bight [details] Goote Bank [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Lorneville Harbour [details] Minas Basin [details] Navy Island [details] New River [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostende (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Oosterschelde [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saint Croix [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Strait of Gibraltar [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] Zeebrugge [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
omnivore [details]
predator [details] scavenger [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Nucellicola holmanae Lamb, Boxshall, Mill & Grahame, 1996 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | BIOTIC Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (215 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (604 nucleotides; 329 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Classification: Some authors position Nucella lapillus within different genera in the family Thaididae (e.g. Lindner, 1977). In Backeljau the family Muricidae was used. [details] Dimensions: maximum size of 25 to 50 mm [details] Distribution: Widely disrtibuted [details] Distribution: Range: 60.72°N to 40.8°N; 72.8°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland; Canada; Canada: Labrador, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York [details] Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140403 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140403 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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