OCEAN-UKRAINE - Retusa truncatula (Bruguière, 1792)

BlackSea taxon details

Retusa truncatula (Bruguière, 1792)

Retusa truncatula (Bruguière, 1792)
Specimen from La Goulette, Tunisia (among algae 0-1 m, 22.06.2008), actual size 2.8 mm.

AphiaID

141138 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141138)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Retusa T. Brown, 1827

Original name

Bulla truncatula Bruguière, 1792

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of ) Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke. volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 377 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Retusa truncatula (Bruguière, 1792). Accessed through: Sergeyeva, O. (2021) Black Sea checklist for Ocean-Ukraine & Sibema at: http://vliz.be/projects/Ocean-Ukraine/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141138 on 2026-06-28

Regional species database citation

Sergeyeva, O. (2026). Black Sea checklist for Ocean-Ukraine & Sibema. Retusa truncatula (Bruguière, 1792). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/projects/ocean-ukraine/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141138 on 2026-06-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2019-02-16 22:03:36Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke. volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): 377 [details]

basis of record 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

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 Gosliner, T. (1987). Nudibranchs of Southern Africa: A Guide to Opisthobranch Molluscs of Southern Africa. Sea Challengers, Monterey, California. , available online at https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004631496
page(s): 41. [details]

additional source Ceulemans, L.; Van Dingenen, F.; Landau B. M. (2018). The lower Pliocene gastropods of Le Pigeon Blanc (Loire-Atlantique, northwest France). Part 5 – Neogastropoda (Conoidea) and Heterobranchia (fine). Cainozoic Research. 18(2): 89-176.
page(s): 122, pl. 7 fig. 8 [details] Available for editors

additional source Gosliner, T. et al. (2023). Southern African Sea Slugs. Southern Underwater Research Group Press, 7 Blackwood Drive, Hout Bay 7806, Cape Town, South Africa.
page(s): 674 [details]

additional source de Kluijver, M. J.; Ingalsuo, S. S.; de Bruyne, R. H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom. (look up in IMIS) [details]