WoRMS taxon details
Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842)
160248 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160248)
accepted
Species
Bela bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838) · unaccepted
Bela bicarinata var. geminolineata Friele, 1879 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bela bicarinata var. rufescens G. O. Sars, 1878 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Bela minuscularia Locard, 1897 · unaccepted (synonym)
Bela violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) · unaccepted
Bela violacea var. laevior G. O. Sars, 1878 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Defrancia becki Møller, 1842 · unaccepted (synonym)
Defrancia cylindracea Møller, 1842 · unaccepted (synonym)
Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838) · unaccepted
Oenopota violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) · unaccepted
Pleurotoma bicarinata Couthouy, 1838 · unaccepted (non Wood, 1828)
Pleurotoma violacea Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine
(of Pleurotoma violacea 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): 51; pl. 4 fig. 21 [details]
page(s): 51; pl. 4 fig. 21 [details]
Distribution Range: 77°N to 41.3°N; 71°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada:...
Distribution Range: 77°N to 41.3°N; 71°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Labrador Strait, Newfoundland; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160248 on 2026-09-13
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Pleurotoma bicarinata Couthouy, 1838) Couthouy, J. P. (1838). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca and shells, and remarks on several Polypii, found in Massachussets Bay. <em>Boston Journal of Natural History.</em> 2(1): 53-111, pl. 1-3., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32266711 [details]
original description (of Bela bicarinata var. geminolineata Friele, 1879) Friele, H. (1879). Catalog der auf der norwegischen Nordmeer-Expedition bei Spitzbergen gefundenen Mollusken. <em>Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 6: 264-286., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16295908
page(s): 277 [details]
original description (of Bela minuscularia Locard, 1897) Locard, A. (1897-1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. <em>Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson.</em> vol. 1 [1897], p. 1-516 pl. 1-22; vol. 2 [1898], p. 1-515, pl. 1-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10994100
page(s): vol. 1, p. 259-261, pl. 12 fig. 28-30 [details]
original description (of Pleurotoma violacea 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): 51; pl. 4 fig. 21 [details]
original description (of Defrancia becki Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910 [details]
original description (of Defrancia cylindracea Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910 [details]
original description (of Bela violacea var. laevior G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496 [details]
original description (of Bela bicarinata var. rufescens G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): 238 [details]
original description (of Bela bicarinata var. geminolineata Friele, 1879) Friele, H. (1879). Catalog der auf der norwegischen Nordmeer-Expedition bei Spitzbergen gefundenen Mollusken. <em>Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft.</em> 6: 264-286., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16295908
page(s): 277 [details]
original description (of Bela minuscularia Locard, 1897) Locard, A. (1897-1898). Expéditions scientifiques du Travailleur et du Talisman pendant les années 1880, 1881, 1882 et 1883. <em>Mollusques testacés. Paris, Masson.</em> vol. 1 [1897], p. 1-516 pl. 1-22; vol. 2 [1898], p. 1-515, pl. 1-18., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10994100
page(s): vol. 1, p. 259-261, pl. 12 fig. 28-30 [details]
original description (of Pleurotoma violacea 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): 51; pl. 4 fig. 21 [details]
original description (of Defrancia becki Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910 [details]
original description (of Defrancia cylindracea Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910 [details]
original description (of Bela violacea var. laevior G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496 [details]
original description (of Bela bicarinata var. rufescens G. O. Sars, 1878) Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): 238 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Bogdanov, I. (1990). Mollusks of Oenopotinae Subfamily (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) of the seas of the USSR [Богданов И.П. 1990. Моллюски подсемейства Oenopotinae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) морей СССР. Фауна СССР, Моллюски, том 5, вып. 3, 223 p]. <em>Fauna SSSR,.</em> Mollyuski, vol. 5, No. 3, 223 p. [In Russian]. [details] Available for editors 
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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 Bogdanov, I.P. & Ito, K. [Katsuchiyo]. (1992). The Oenopotinae (Gastropoda: Turridae) mollusks from the southeastern part of the Japan Sea. <em>Venus.</em> 51(1-2): 11-41. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. <i> National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs</i> 39: 225-383. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Bogdanov, I.P. & Ito, K. [Katsuchiyo]. (1992). The Oenopotinae (Gastropoda: Turridae) mollusks from the southeastern part of the Japan Sea. <em>Venus.</em> 51(1-2): 11-41. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Hasegawa K. (2009) Upper bathyal gastropods of the Pacific coast of northern Honshu, Japan, chiefly collected by R/V Wakataka-maru. In: T. Fujita (ed.), Deep-sea fauna and pollutants off Pacific coast of northern Japan. <i> National Museum of Nature and Science Monographs</i> 39: 225-383. [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Range: 77°N to 41.3°N; 71°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Labrador Strait, Newfoundland; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut [details]Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) (from synonym Oenopota violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Bela minuscularia Locard, 1897)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications) (from synonym Bela bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications) (from synonym Bela violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Dyntaxa (from synonym Oenopota violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Oenopota bicarinata) (from synonym Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To Malacopics (Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) Iceland, Denmark Strait, Vikuréil ...
To PESI (from synonym Pleurotoma violacea Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842)
To PESI (from synonym Pleurotoma bicarinata Couthouy, 1838)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To PESI (from synonym Oenopota violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To PESI (from synonym Bela violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To PESI (from synonym Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To PESI (from synonym Bela bicarinata var. geminolineata Friele, 1879)
To PESI (from synonym Bela violacea var. laevior G. O. Sars, 1878)
To PESI (from synonym Bela bicarinata var. rufescens G. O. Sars, 1878)
To PESI (from synonym Bela minuscularia Locard, 1897)
To PESI (from synonym Defrancia becki Møller, 1842)
To PESI (from synonym Defrancia cylindracea Møller, 1842)
To PESI (from synonym Bela bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To The Arctic Traits Database (11 traits) (from synonym Oenopota violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To The Arctic Traits Database (4 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Oenopota violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Bela minuscularia Locard, 1897)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications) (from synonym Bela bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (66 publications) (from synonym Bela violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Dyntaxa (from synonym Oenopota violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Oenopota bicarinata) (from synonym Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To Malacopics (Curtitoma violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842) Iceland, Denmark Strait, Vikuréil ...
To PESI (from synonym Pleurotoma violacea Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842)
To PESI (from synonym Pleurotoma bicarinata Couthouy, 1838)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To PESI (from synonym Oenopota violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To PESI (from synonym Bela violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To PESI (from synonym Pleurotoma (Bela) violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To PESI (from synonym Bela bicarinata var. geminolineata Friele, 1879)
To PESI (from synonym Bela violacea var. laevior G. O. Sars, 1878)
To PESI (from synonym Bela bicarinata var. rufescens G. O. Sars, 1878)
To PESI (from synonym Bela minuscularia Locard, 1897)
To PESI (from synonym Defrancia becki Møller, 1842)
To PESI (from synonym Defrancia cylindracea Møller, 1842)
To PESI (from synonym Bela bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To The Arctic Traits Database (11 traits) (from synonym Oenopota violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To The Arctic Traits Database (4 traits)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Oenopota bicarinata (Couthouy, 1838))
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Oenopota violacea (Mighels & C. B. Adams, 1842))
To ITIS
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