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Obtusella intersecta (S. Wood, 1857) 
AphiaID: 141304

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Rissooidea (Superfamily) > Rissoidae (Family) > Rissoinae (Subfamily) > Obtusella (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Obtusella Cossmann, 1921
Parent Obtusella Cossmann, 1921
Synonymised
taxa		  Cingula alderi (Jeffreys, 1858)
 Obtusella alderi (Jeffreys, 1858)
 Rissoa obtusa Cantraine, 1842 (preoccupied name)
Sources  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: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

from synonym: Marine Benthic Fauna List, Læsø, Denmark (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Cantraine [F.J.] (1842). Diagnoses de quelques espèces nouvelles de coquilles soit natives soit fossiles, appartenant au bassin méditerranéen. Bulletins de l'Académie Royale des Sciences et Belles-lettres de Bruxelles, 9(2): 340-349, available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=gKxJAAAAcAAJ&pg=RA1-PA340 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch gewone knophoren  [details]
Dutch knophoren  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Goote Bank (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic [details]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details]
Links To CLEMAM
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
Note  Distribution: Absent from Baltic and eastern shores of North Sea [details]
Images 
Obtusella intersecta
Obtusella intersecta
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Obtusella intersecta (Wood S., 1857)Shell from Benalmádena, Spain (actual size 1.2 mm).
Obtusella intersecta (Wood S., 1857)
Shell from Benalmádena, Spain (actual size 1.2 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:141304
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2012-05-19 13:34:38Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2013). Obtusella intersecta (S. Wood, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141304 on 2013-05-25
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