MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Roxania utriculus (Brocchi, 1814)

ERMS taxon details

Roxania utriculus (Brocchi, 1814)

To Marine Heterobranchia (Salento Sommerso)

AphiaID

139486 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139486)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Roxania Leach, 1847

Original name

Bulla utriculus Brocchi, 1814

Synonymised names

Bulla cranchii J. Fleming, 1828 · unaccepted

Bulla utriculata Locard, 1886 · unaccepted (synonym)

Bulla utriculus Brocchi, 1814 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Bulla utriculus var. oblonga Jeffreys, 1867 · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Bulla utriculus Brocchi, 1814) Brocchi, G. B. (1814). Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Tomo Secondo. pp. 241-712, pls 1-16. Stamperia Reale, Milano., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12009101
page(s): 633 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Roxania utriculus (Brocchi, 1814). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139486 on 2026-01-21

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Roxania utriculus (Brocchi, 1814). Accessed at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php/js/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139486 on 2026-01-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2025-12-15 12:34:25Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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original description (of Bulla cranchii J. Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 292. [details]

original description (of Bulla utriculata Locard, 1886) Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012
page(s): 77 [details]

original description (of Bulla utriculus Brocchi, 1814) Brocchi, G. B. (1814). Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Tomo Secondo. pp. 241-712, pls 1-16. Stamperia Reale, Milano., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12009101
page(s): 633 [details]

original description (of Bulla utriculus var. oblonga Jeffreys, 1867) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): vol. 4 p. 440 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Gofas, S.; Luque, Á. A.; Templado, J.; Salas, C. (2017). A national checklist of marine Mollusca in Spanish waters. Scientia Marina. 81(2) : 241-254, and supplementary online material., available online at https://doi.org/10.3989/scimar.04543.21a [details]

additional source Gantès H. & Cornet M. (1981). Précisions nouvelles sur l'anatomie de Roxania utriculus (Brocchi, 1814) (Mollusques, Gastropode, Opistobranche). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 106: 183-186 [details]

additional source Janssen, R. & Stein, G. (with contributions of Moths, H. & Wieneke, U. (2025). Die Molluskenfauna des Obermiozäns (Langenfeldium s. lat.; Tortonium) von Groß Pampau (Schleswig-Holstein). Palaeontos. 36: 1-181, pls. 1-69. [details]

additional source Chirli, C.; Forli, M. (2025). I molluschi del Pleistocene inferiore (Calabriano) del botro Crocetta, Rosignano Marittimo (Livorno). Bollettino Malacologico. 61(2): 131-151., available online at https://doi.org/10.53559/bollmalacol.2025.07
page(s): 142, figs 4N-O [details]

additional source Harzhauser, M.; Landau, B. M.; Malaquias, M. A. E. (2026). Marine shelled Heterobranchia in part (Gastropoda) of the Miocene Central Paratethys Sea. Zootaxa. 5742(1): 1-150., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5742.1.1 [details] Available for editors

additional source Chaban, E. (2020). New data on Roxania Leach, 1847 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) from the Sea of Marmara based on materials of the Russian expedition in 1894 [in Russian: Новые данные о видах рода Roxania Leach, 1847 (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) Мраморного моря по материалам российской экспедиции 1894 г. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS. 324(4): 535-547., available online at https://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/357280.pdf [details]