MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Ovatella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)

NARMS name details

Ovatella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)

AphiaID

153912 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153912)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)

Rank

Species

Parent

Ovatella Bivona e Bernardi, 1832

Original name

Auricula myosotis Draparnaud, 1801

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Subspecies Ovatella myosotis salentina Palazzi & Curini Galletti, 1982 accepted as Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801) (synonym)
Variety Ovatella myosotis var. ringens (W. Turton, 1819) accepted as Myosotella denticulata (Montagu, 1803) accepted as Myosotella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801)

Environment

marine, brackish, terrestrial

Original description

(of Auricula myosotis Draparnaud, 1801) Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28587765
page(s): 54 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ovatella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=153912 on 2025-05-25

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Ovatella myosotis (Draparnaud, 1801). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=153912 on 2025-05-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-16 10:28:02Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-03-24 13:21:54Z

checked

Gofas, Serge

2010-03-31 06:40:42Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2022-12-22 21:19:45Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

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original description (of Auricula myosotis Draparnaud, 1801) Draparnaud, J. P. R. (1801). Tableau des mollusques terrestres et fluviatiles de la France. Montpellier / Paris (Renaud / Bossange, Masson & Besson). 1-116. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28587765
page(s): 54 [details]

basis of record Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van Belgi� [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Mayhew, R.; Cole, F. (1995). A taxonomic discussion and update of shell-bearing marine molluscs recorded from NW Atlantic North of Cape Cod (excluding Greenland), and Canadian Arctic Archipeligo. Of Sea and Shore. 18(2): 99-116., available online at https://www.conchology.be/?t=8004&year=1995&volume=18&volumeno=2&ofsea=12667 [details] Available for editors

additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 334 [details]

additional source Meyer, K. O. (1955). Naturgeschichte der Strandschnecke Ovatella myosotis (Draparnaud). Archiv f�r Molluskenkunde. 84 (1/3): 1-43. [details]

additional source Paulson, E. G. (1957). Taxonymy of salt marsh snail, Ovatella myosotis, in central California. The Nautilus. 71(1): 4-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8518953 [details]

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Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed
Ireland
North Atlantic Ocean

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS