WoRMS taxon details
Aporrhais occidentalis (Beck, 1836)
AphiaID: 160164
AphiaID: 160164
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Stromboidea (Superfamily) > Aporrhaidae (Family) > Aporrhais (Genus) |
| Status | alternate representation | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Arrhoges occidentalis (Beck, 1836) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Aporrhais Da Costa, 1778 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] basis of record: 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] basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] basis of record: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 [details] 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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| Distribution | Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gullivers Head [details] Manicouagan [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (108 publications) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: maximum size of 50 to 60 mm [details] Distribution: Arctic Canada to off North Carolina [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160164 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Aporrhais occidentalis (Beck, 1836). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160164 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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