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WRiMS taxon details

Arcuatula senhousia (W. H. Benson, 1842)

Arcuatula senhousia (Benson in Cantor, 1842)
Specimen from La Goulette, Tunisia among algae, 31 03 2009), actual size 10 mm.

AphiaID

505946 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505946)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Arcuatula Jousseaume, 1919

Original name

Modiola senhousia W. H. Benson, 1842

Synonymised names

Musculista senhousia (W. H. Benson, 1842) · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Musculus senhousia (W. H. Benson, 1842) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Benson, W. H. (1842). Mollusca. in: T. Cantor, General features of Chusan, with remarks on the flora and fauna of that island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9(60): 486-490., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18684698
page(s): 489 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Arcuatula senhousia (W. H. Benson, 1842). Accessed through: Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stepien, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025) World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505946 on 2025-05-04

Thematic species database citation

Costello, M. J.; Ahyong, S.; Bieler, R.; Boudouresque, C.; Desiderato, A.; Downey, R.; Galil, B. S.; Gollasch, S.; Hutchings, P.; Kamburska, L.; Katsanevakis, S.; Kupriyanova, E.; Lejeusne, C.; Ma, K. C. K.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti, A.; Pagad, S.; Pino, L.; Poore, G. C. B.; Rewicz, T.; Rius, M.; Robinson, T. B.; Sobczyk, R.; Stępień, A.; Turon, X.; Valls Domedel, G.; Verleye, T.; Vieira, L. M.; Willan, R. C.; Zhan, A. (2025). World Register of Introduced Marine Species (WRiMS). Arcuatula senhousia (W. H. Benson, 1842). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/introduced/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505946 on 2025-05-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2016-08-10 02:51:40Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2020-04-25 20:15:52Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of ) Benson, W. H. (1842). Mollusca. in: T. Cantor, General features of Chusan, with remarks on the flora and fauna of that island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9(60): 486-490., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18684698
page(s): 489 [details]

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors

context source (HKRMS) Fong, C. W. (1998). Some aspects of the ecology of the seagrass Zostera japonica in Hong Kong. MPhil thesis. The University of Hong Kong. [details]

basis of record Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Corriero, G., C. Pierri, S. Accoroni, G.Alabiso, G. Bavestrello, E. Barbone, M. Bastianini, A.M. Bazzoni, F. Bernardi Aubry, F. Boero, M.C. Buia, M. Cabrini, E. Camatti, F. Cardone, B. Cataletto, R. Cattaneo Vietti, E. Cecere, T. Cibic, P. Colangelo, A. De Olazabal, G. D'onghia, S. Finotto, N. Fiore, D. Fornasaro, S. Fraschetti, M.C. Gambi, A. Giangrande, C. Gravili, R. Guglielmo, C. Longo, M. Lorenti, A. Lugliè, P. Maiorano, M.G. Mazzocchi, M. Mercurio, F. Mastrototaro, M. Mistri, M. Monti, C. Munari, L. Musco, C. Nonnis-Marzano, B.M. Padedda, F.P. Patti, A. Petrocelli, S. Piraino, G. Portacci, A. Pugnetti, S. Pulina, T. Romagnoli, I. Rosati, D. Sarno, C.T. Satta, N. Sechi, S. Schiaparelli, B. Scipione, L. Sion, A. Terlizzi, V. Tirelli, C. Totti, A. Tursi, N. Ungaro, A. Zingone, V. Zupo & A. Basset. (2015). Ecosystem vulnerability to alien and invasive species: a case study on marine habitats along the Italian coast. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 26(2):392-409., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2550 [details] Available for editors

additional source Marchini, A., J. Ferrario, A. Sfriso & A. Occhipinti-Ambrogi. (2015). Current status and trends of biological invasions in the Lagoon of Venice, a hotspot of marine NIS introductions in the Mediterranean Sea. Biological Invasions. 17:2943–2962., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-0922-3 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From regional or thematic species database

Introduced species abundance in Slovenian part of the Adriatic Sea (Marine Region) : Dominant [details]

Introduced species impact in Slovenian part of the Adriatic Sea (Marine Region) : Other impact - undefined or uncertain [details]

Introduced species population trend in Slovenian part of the Adriatic Sea (Marine Region) : Increasing [details]

Introduced species remark In Slovenian part of the Adriatic Sea (Marine Region) : This species is now found in great density in shallow areas of the Skocjan Inlet close to the city of Koper (Lipej et al. 2012). [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Egyptian part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (Marine Region) : Shipping [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Egyptian part of the Mediterranean Sea - Eastern Basin (Marine Region) : Fisheries: accidental with deliberate translocations of fish or shellfish [details]

Introduced species vector dispersal in Slovenian part of the Adriatic Sea (Marine Region) : Fisheries: deliberate translocations of fish or shellfish to establish or support fishery [details]

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