WoRMS taxon details

Calliostoma occidentale (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842)

141765  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141765)

accepted
Species
Calliostoma formosum (McAndrew & Forbes, 1847) · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Margarita alabastrum Lovén, 1846 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Trochus alabastrum (Lovén, 1846) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Trochus formosus McAndrew & Forbes, 1847 · unaccepted (synonym and junior primary...)  
synonym and junior primary homonym of Trochus formosus W. Wood, 1828
Zizyphinus alabastrum (Lovén, 1846) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Trochus occidentalis Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) Mighels, J. W.; Adams, C. B. (1842). Descriptions of twenty-four new species of New England shells. Boston Journal of Natural History, 4: 37-54, pl. 4., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5362938
page(s): 47-48; pl. 4 fig. 16 [details]   
Note USA, Maine, Casco Bay  
Type locality USA, Maine, Casco Bay [details]
Distribution Range: 60.14°N to 39.98°N; 70.31°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland; Canada; Canada: Nova Scotia,...  
Distribution Range: 60.14°N to 39.98°N; 70.31°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland; Canada; Canada: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Georges Bank, New Jersey [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Calliostoma occidentale (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141765 on 2024-03-28
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original description  (of Trochus formosus McAndrew & Forbes, 1847) McAndrew R. & Forbes E. (1847). Notices of new or rare British animals observed during cruises in 1845 and 1846. <i>Annals and Magazine of Natural History 19</i>: 96-98, pl. 9
page(s): 96, pl. IX, fig. 1 [details]   

original description  (of Trochus occidentalis Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) Mighels, J. W.; Adams, C. B. (1842). Descriptions of twenty-four new species of New England shells. Boston Journal of Natural History, 4: 37-54, pl. 4., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5362938
page(s): 47-48; pl. 4 fig. 16 [details]   

original description  (of Trochus occidentalis var. pura Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 334 [details]   

original description  (of Margarita alabastrum Lovén, 1846) Lovén, S. L. (1846). <i>Index Molluscorum litora Scandinaviae occidentalia habitantium</i>. <em>Öfversigt af Kongliga Vetenskaps Akademiens Förhandlingar.</em> (1846): 134-160, 182-204. [Offprint: pp. 1-50]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/39077288
page(s): 152 (= p. 20 of the offprint) [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

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. <em>Northeastern Naturalist.</em> 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Nolf, F. & Hubrecht, S. (2023). A commented list of the white, mainly deep-water calliostomatids (Mollusca: Gastropoda) in the East Atlantic waters. <em>Neptunea.</em> 17(1): 23-40.
page(s): 29, pl. 8 figs 59-61 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Type locality USA, Maine, Casco Bay [details]

From other sources
Dimensions maximum size of 13 mm [details]

Distribution Range: 60.14°N to 39.98°N; 70.31°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland; Canada; Canada: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Georges Bank, New Jersey [details]

Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
LanguageName 
English pearly topsnailboreal topsnail  [details]
German PerlkreiselschneckeBoreale Kreiselschnecke  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål perlemorkjeglesnegl  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk perlemorkjeglesnigel  [details]