WoRMS taxon details
Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1803)
AphiaID: 141134
AphiaID: 141134
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Heterobranchia (Subclass) > Opisthobranchia (Infraclass) > Cephalaspidea (Order) > Philinoidea (Superfamily) > Retusidae (Family) > Retusa (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Retusa T. Brown, 1827 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Bulla alba Turton, 1825 (synonym) Bulla obtusa Montagu, 1803 (original combination) Bulla pertenuis Mighels, 1843 (synonym) Bulla plicata Brown, 1827 (synonym) Retusa obtusa var. turrita (Møller, 1842) Retusa obtusata (misspelling) Retusa pertenuis (Mighels, 1843) (junior synonym) Retusa turrita Møller, 1842 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Montagu, G. (1803) Testacea Britannica or Natural History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Fresh-water, Including the Most Minute: Systematically Arranged and Embellished with Figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp. and Vol. 2, 293–606 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694 [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: 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: 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: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 [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: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 115 [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Check List of European Marine Mollusca (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: NSBP/Degraer [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Kantor, Y.I. & Sysoev, A.V. (eds), 2005. Catalogue of molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. Moscow [details] [view taxon] from synonym: BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| All child taxa [hide all] | Variety Retusa obtusa var. turrita (Møller, 1842) accepted as Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1803) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Alaska [details] Arctic Ocean [details] Beaufort Sea [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Bliss Harbour [details] British Isles [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Canaries [details] Cape Verde [details] Cobscook Bay [details] East Atlantic [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Goote Bank [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Koksijde [details] Lime Kiln Bay [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North Carolina [details] North Europe [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saint John Harbour [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Coast of Norway [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | carnivore [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: maximum size of 3 mm in length [details] Distribution: Arctic seas to off North Carolina; Alaska [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141134 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1803). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141134 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||||||||
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