Canadian Register of Marine Species - Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758)

MSBIAS taxon details

Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

141548 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141548)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Spirula Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Nautilus spirula Linnaeus, 1758

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 710 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025) Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141548 on 2025-06-09

Regional species database citation

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2025). Marine Species of the British Isles and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Spirula spirula (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141548 on 2025-06-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-04-07 06:42:23Z

changed

Vandepitte, Leen

2008-08-21 17:03:20Z

checked

Gofas, Serge

2016-02-05 08:54:36Z

changed

Hayward, Bruce W.

2016-06-02 22:13:13Z

changed

Finn, Julian

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 710 [details] Available for editors

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 Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 68: 21-74., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5656754n [details]

additional source Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Branch, G. M. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg. , available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

additional source Ardovini, R.; Cossignani, T. (2004). West African seashells (including Azores, Madeira and Canary Is.) = Conchiglie dell'Africa Occidentale (incluse Azzorre, Madeira e Canarie). English-Italian edition. L'Informatore Piceno: Ancona, Italy. ISBN 88-86070-11-X. 319 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

additional source Judkins, H. L., M. Vecchione, and C. F. E. Roper. 2009. Cephalopoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 701–709 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas. [details]

additional source Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 179 [details]

additional source Hayward, B. W. (1976). Spirula (Sepioidea:Cephalopoda) from the lower Miocene of Kaipara Harbour, New Zealand (note. New Zealand Journal of Geology and Geophysics. 19, 145-147.
note: fossil record from early Miocene [details] Available for editors

additional source Reid, A. (2005). Family Spirulidae. pp. 211-212, in P. Jereb & C.F.E. Roper eds. Cephalopods of the world. An annotated and illustrated catalogue of cephalopod species known to date. Volume 1. Chambered nautiluses and sepioids (Nautilidae, Sepiidae, Sepiolidae, Sepiadariidae, Idiosepiidae and Spirulidae). FAO Species Catalogue for Fishery Purposes [Rome, FAO]. 4(1): 262 pp. 9 pls.
page(s): 211 [details]

additional source Johnson, C. W. (1926). Spirula spirula (Linne). The Nautilus. 39(4): 141-142., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8524776 [details]

additional source McGinty, T. L. (1955). Spirula spirula Linné, a remarkable find. The Nautilus. 69(1): 35., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8525198 [details]

additional source Thomas, R. F. & Bingham, F. O. (1972). Shell structure in Spirula spirula (Cephalopoda). The Nautilus. 86(2-4): 63-66, figs. 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8511576 [details]

status source Hoffmann, R.; Weinkauf, M. F. G.; Fuchs, D.; Lukeneder, A. (2021). Is there more than one species in the genus Spirula(Cephalopoda: Decabrachia): evidence for an Atlantic–Pacific divide. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 87(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyab001 [details]