MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Limacina Bosc, 1817

ERMS taxon details

Limacina Bosc, 1817

AphiaID

138122 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138122)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Clio helicina Phipps, 1774 accepted as Limacina helicina (Phipps, 1774) (type by monotypy)

Typetaxon of

Limacinidae Gray, 1840

Parent

Limacinidae Gray, 1840

Orig. name

Limacina Bosc, 1817

Synonymised names

Heterofusus J. Fleming, 1823 · unaccepted

Scaea R. A. Philippi, 1844 · unaccepted

Spiratella Blainville, 1817 · unaccepted (Objective synonym of Limacina)

Spirialis Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840 · unaccepted

Direct children (13)
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Species Limacina bulimoides (d'Orbigny, 1835)
Species Limacina helicina (Phipps, 1774)
Species Limacina lesueurii (d'Orbigny, 1836)
Species Limacina retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823)
Species Limacina trochiformis (d'Orbigny, 1835)

Species Limacina balea Møller, 1841 accepted as Limacina retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823) (synonym)
Species Limacina contorta Sykes, 1905 accepted as Limacina trochiformis (d'Orbigny, 1835)
Species Limacina crossei Pelseneer, 1888 accepted as Limacina lesueurii (d'Orbigny, 1836) (synonym)
Species Limacina helicialis Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Limacina helicina (Phipps, 1774) (synonym)
Species Limacina helicoides Jeffreys, 1877 accepted as Thielea helicoides (Jeffreys, 1877) (original combination)
Species Limacina inflata (d'Orbigny, 1834) accepted as Heliconoides inflatus (d'Orbigny, 1835)
Species Limacina naticoides Souleyet, 1852 accepted as Limacina trochiformis (d'Orbigny, 1835) (synonym)
Species Limacina scaphoidea Gould, 1852 accepted as Heliconoides inflatus (d'Orbigny, 1835)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Bosc L.A.G. (1817). Limacine. Limacina. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. 18: 42-43., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18052588 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Limacina Bosc, 1817. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2022) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138122 on 2023-03-31

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023). European Register of Marine Species. Limacina Bosc, 1817. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138122 on 2023-03-31

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2012-07-17 19:57:04Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-01-04 03:26:39Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2020-05-16 09:41:33Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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original description Bosc L.A.G. (1817). Limacine. Limacina. Nouveau dictionnaire d'histoire naturelle. 18: 42-43., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18052588 [details]

original description (of Spirialis Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840) Eydoux J.F.T. & Souleyet L.F.A. (1840). Description sommaire de plusieurs Ptéropodes nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus, destinés à être publiés dans le voyage de la "Bonite". Revue Zoologique de la Société Cuvierienne, Paris. (1840): 235-239., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13714239 [details]

original description (of Spiratella Blainville, 1817) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1817). Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.). Levrault, Strasbourg et Paris, & Le Normant, Paris. vol 9, pp. 1-560., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23024020
page(s): 407 [details]

original description (of Scaea R. A. Philippi, 1844) Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2.. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062 [details]

original description (of Heterofusus J. Fleming, 1823) Fleming J. (1823). On a reversed species of Fusus (Fusus retroversus). Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh) 4 (2): 488-500 pl. 11 [details]

taxonomy source Spoel, S. van der. (1967). Euthecosomata, a group with remarkable developmental stages (Gastropoda, Pteropoda). Gorinchem: Noorduijn en Zoon. 378 pp. [20 November 1967]. [details]

additional source Janssen, A. W. (2003). Notes on the systematics, morphology and biostratigraphy of fossil holoplanktonic Mollusca, 13. Considerations on a subdivision of Thecosomata, with the emphasis on genus group classification of Limacinidae. Cainozoic Research. 2 (1-2): 163-170., available online at https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/541695 [details]

additional source Janssen, A. W. & Zorn, I. (2001). Notes on the systematics, morphology and biostratigraphy of fossil holoplanktonic Mollusca, 11. Limacina Bosc, 1817: precedence over Spiratella Blainville, 1817 (Mollusca, Gastropoda: Euthecosomata). Basteria. 65 (4/6): 147-149., available online at https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/597224 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To The Arctic Traits Database (1 trait)
To ITIS


Limacina helicina [image from typetaxon]


limacina helicina [image from typetaxon]


Limacina helicina [image from typetaxon]


Limacina helicina [image from typetaxon]


Limacina helicina [image from typetaxon]


Limacina helicina [image from typetaxon]