WoRMS taxon details
Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 141548
AphiaID: 141548
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Cephalopoda (Class) > Coleoidea (Subclass) > Decapodiformes (Infraclass) > Spirulida (Order) > Spirulidae (Family) > Spirula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Spirula | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Nautilus spirula Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Spirula australis Lamarck, 1816 Spirula fragilis Lamarck, 1801 Spirula peroni Lamarck, 1822 Spirula prototypus Péron, 1804 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. J. conchyliol. 68: 21-74 (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS) [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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [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] additional source: Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. 2009 Recent Mollusca. Pp 196-219 in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.), The New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch [details] additional source: Judkins, H. L., M. Vecchione, and C. F. E. Roper. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 701–709 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details] additional source: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 179 [details] original description (from synonym): 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] [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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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] East Coast of South Africa [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 27 [details] FAO fishing area 31 [details] FAO fishing area 34 [details] FAO fishing area 41 [details] FAO fishing area 47 [details] FAO fishing area 51 [details] FAO fishing area 57 [details] FAO fishing area 58 [details] FAO fishing area 71 [details] FAO fishing area 81 [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Madagascar [details] New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone [details] North West Atlantic [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Antarctic Invertebrates To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (45 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 17 proteins) To IUCN Red List To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Westrern Atlantic: Cape Cod to the West Indies [details] Distribution: circum-(sub)tropical [details] Distribution: Tropical and subtropical oceanic waters worldwide, where the water temperature at 400 m is 10ºC or warmer [details] Habitat: This is a mesopelagic species, inhabiting from 600 to 700 m during the day and found in depths less than 300 m at night. Capture of young at depths between 1 000 and 1 750 m suggests that females possibly lay eggs on the bottom of continental slopes [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: oceanic, pelagic [details] Length: Rarely exceeds 45 mm mantle length. [details] Synonymy: a possible synonym might be Stoa ammonitiformis de Serres, 1855 [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141548 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141548 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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