WoRMS taxon details
Tectura virginea (O. F. Müller, 1776)
AphiaID: 153552
AphiaID: 153552
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Patellogastropoda (Subclass) > Lottioidea (Superfamily) > Lottiidae (Family) > Tectura (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Tectura Gray, 1847 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acmaea virginea (Müller O. F., 1776) (currently placed in genus Tectura) Patella parva da Costa, 1778 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologica Danicae Prodromus seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae indigenarum characters, nomine, et synonyma imprimis popularium. Havniae. XXXII, 274 pp., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.13268 page(s): 237 [details] [full text] basis of record: Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1): 79–99. [details] basis of record: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (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] 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: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Rolán E., 2005. Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Smith, S.M.; Heppell, D. (1991). Checklist of the British marine Mollusca. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System , available online at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/collections-management [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Cape Verde (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] German Bight (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Goote Bank (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Oostduinkerke (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Coast of Norway [details] Wimereux (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (101 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 1 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Type of larval development: short planktonic, non-planktotrophic [details] Diagnosis: Shell 10-12 mm long, with apex situated at 1/4 from anterior end but not overhanging and not curled up. Outer surface smooth except for growth lines. Colour pink with blurry darker ray and indistinct whitish blotches. Shells of this species may easily be confused with the pulmonate Williamia gussonii (Costa, 1829), which differs in having a more curved profile, with the apex commonly curled up towards the anterior edge and displaying a small spiral protoconch which is never conserved in adult Tectura. The colour is also different, more brownish in Williamia with more distinct rays and no whitish blotches. The animals are markedly different, Tectura with slender cephalic tentacles and Williamia with broad, fringe-like lappets instead. [details] Distribution: Eastern Atlantic, from Svalbard and Norway to Morocco, and the Mediterranean; also Canary Is., Madeira and the Azores, (from shore to ca. 50 m). Gorringe, Ampère and Seine seamounts (moderately common in 70-325 m), Josephine seamount (rare in 200-222 m, probably subfossil) [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153552 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Tectura virginea (O.F. Müller, 1776). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=153552 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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