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Lunatia alderi (Forbes, 1838) 
AphiaID: 152324

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Naticoidea (Superfamily) > Naticidae (Family) > Polinicinae (Subfamily) > Lunatia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Euspira nitida (Donovan, 1804)
Rank Species
Parent Lunatia Gray, 1847
Sources  basis of record: 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]

source of synonymy: 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]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch glanzende tepelhoorn  [details]
Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North East Atlantic [details]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Oostduinkerke [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 3 proteins)
To ITIS
Notes  Identification: Lunatia alderi can be confused with the fossil Lunatia hemiclausa. The latter also occurs at the Belgian coast. [details]

Taxonomy: There is still doubt about the validity of Lunatia alderi. Though Fretter & Graham (1981) are followed in the use of the name Lunatia alderi (Forbes, 1838). [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152324
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-04-11 07:40:04Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2013-03-04 09:12:12Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Lunatia alderi (Forbes, 1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152324 on 2013-06-20
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