MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791)

WoRMS taxon details

Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

140521 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140521)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Amauropsis Mörch, 1857

Original name

Nerita islandica Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Acrybia (Amauropsis) islandica (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Amauropsis cornea (Möller, 1842) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Amauropsis purpurea Dall, 1871 · unaccepted

Bulbus (Amauropsis) islandicus (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872 · unaccepted

Mamma (Lunatia) islandica (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Natica (Amauropsis) islandica (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Natica canaliculata A. Gould, 1840 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior primary homonym...)

Invalid: junior primary homonym of Natica canaliculata Deshayes, 1832; Natica gouldii C. B. Adams, 1847 is a replacement name

Natica cornea Møller, 1842 · unaccepted

Natica exulans A. Gould, 1841 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)

Natica gouldii C. B. Adams, 1847 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior primary homonym...)

Invalid: junior primary homonym of Natica gouldii Philippi, 1845

Natica helicoides G. Johnston, 1835 · unaccepted (synonym)

Natica islandica (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Natica purpurea (Dall, 1871) · unaccepted (dubious synonym)

Nerita islandica Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Nerita islandica Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3675 [details]

Type data

Note "Habitat in Oceano septemtrionali"

Type locality "Habitat in Oceano septemtrionali" [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Range: 76°N to 37°N; 120°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada:...

Distribution Range: 76°N to 37°N; 120°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Georges Bank [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140521 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2022-11-13 08:27:16Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

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

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Natica helicoides G. Johnston, 1835) Johnston, G. (1835). Introduction to the natural history of molluscous animals. Magazine of Natural History. 8: 71-81. [details]

original description (of Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872) Dawson J.W. (1872). The post-Pliocene geology of Canada. Sub-kingdom Mollusca. The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science. (n.s.)6(4): 369-416., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7714469
page(s): 392 [details]

original description (of Nerita islandica Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3675 [details]

original description (of Amauropsis purpurea Dall, 1871) Dall, W. H. (1871). Descriptions of sixty new forms of mollusks and brachiopods of the southeastern coast of North America and the North Pacific Ocean, with notes on others already described. American Journal of Conchology. 7(2): 93-159, pl. 13-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15918246 [details]

original description (of Natica cornea Møller, 1842) Möller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. 4: 76-97 [Copenhagen]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910
page(s): 80 [details]

original description (of Natica canaliculata A. Gould, 1840) Gould, A. A. (1840). Descriptions of thirteen new species of shells. American Journal of Science and Arts. (1) 38: 196-197., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30966509
page(s): 197. [details]

original description (of Natica exulans A. Gould, 1841) Gould, A.A. (1841). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Comprising the Mollusca, Crustacea, Annelida, and Radiata. Published Agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge,. xiii + 373 pp., 15 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76081 [details]

original description (of Natica gouldii C. B. Adams, 1847) Adams, C. B. (1847). Catalogue of the genera and species of recent shells in the collection of C.B. Adams. Justus Cobb, Middlebury, Vermont. 1-32., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12095972
page(s): 21. [details]

basis of record Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350432257_Marine_and_brackish-water_Gastropoda_of_Russia_and_adjacent_countries_an_illustrated_catalogue
page(s): 63, pl. 30 F [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. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

[request]

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 Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR. 116: 1-292 [In Russian]., available online at http://ashipunov.info/shipunov/school/books/golikov1978_rakov_brjukh_litorali_morei_sssr.djvu
page(s): 151, fig. 107 [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Type locality "Habitat in Oceano septemtrionali" [details]

Unreviewed

Dimensions maximum size of 25 to 35 mm [details]

Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Danish	højspiret boresnegl	[details]
Dutch	IJslandse tepelhoren	[details]
English	Iceland moonsnail	[details]
French	natice d'Islande	[details]
German	Island-MondschneckeIsländische MondschneckeIsländische Bohrschnecke	[details]