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CaRMS taxon detailsLimacina helicina (Phipps, 1774)
140223 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140223)
accepted
Species
marine
(of ) Phipps C.J. (1774). A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. <em>London.</em> i-viii, 1-253., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15066869
page(s): 195 [details] 
Distribution Greenland, South and North slope of Anticosti Island, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait), northern Gaspe...
Distribution Greenland, South and North slope of Anticosti Island, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait), northern Gaspe waters, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle including the Mingan Islands), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), lower north Shore, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Esquiman Channel), lower Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone as far as Cabot Strait: Cape North, N.S., St. Paul Island to Cape Ray, NL.); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limacina helicina (Phipps, 1774). Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140223 on 2025-05-17
Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Limacina helicina (Phipps, 1774). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140223 on 2025-05-17
original description
(of ) Phipps C.J. (1774). A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. <em>London.</em> i-viii, 1-253., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15066869
page(s): 195 [details] context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details] additional source 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] additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details] status source Hunt B., Strugnell J., Bednarsek N., Linse K., Nelson R.J., Pakhomov E., Seibel B., Steinke D. & Würzberg L. (2010). Poles apart: The "bipolar" pteropod species <i>Limacina helicina</i> is genetically distinct between the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. <i>PLoS One</i> 5(3):e9835. [details]  Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Distribution Greenland, South and North slope of Anticosti Island, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait), northern Gaspe waters, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle including the Mingan Islands), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), lower north Shore, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Esquiman Channel), lower Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone as far as Cabot Strait: Cape North, N.S., St. Paul Island to Cape Ray, NL.); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland [details]Habitat upper epipelagic and glacial [details]
To Barcode of Life (828 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (185 publications) To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Limacina helicina) To GenBank (720 nucleotides; 678 proteins) To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) To PESI To The Arctic Traits Database (1 trait) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS |
