North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

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Limacina helicina (Phipps, 1774)

AphiaID

140223 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140223)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Limacina Bosc, 1817

Original name

Clio helicina Phipps, 1774

Synonymised names

Argonauta arctica O. Fabricius, 1780 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Clio helicina Phipps, 1774 · unaccepted (original combination)

Limacina helicialis Lamarck, 1819 · unaccepted (synonym)

Spiratella helicina (Phipps, 1774) · unaccepted

Spiratella limacina Blainville, 1824 · unaccepted (synonym)

Spiratella planospira Rehder, 1942 · unaccepted

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Subspecies Limacina helicina helicina (Phipps, 1774)
Subspecies Limacina helicina ochotensis Shkoldina, 1999
Subspecies Limacina helicina pacifica Dall, 1871
Subspecies Limacina helicina antarctica S. P. Woodward, 1854 accepted as Limacina antarctica S. P. Woodward, 1854 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
Forma Limacina helicina f. antarctica S. P. Woodward, 1854 accepted as Limacina antarctica S. P. Woodward, 1854 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
Subspecies Limacina helicina rangii (A. d'Orbigny, 1835) accepted as Limacina rangii (A. d'Orbigny, 1835)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Clio helicina Phipps, 1774) Phipps C.J. (1774). A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. London. i-viii, 1-253., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15066869
page(s): 195 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Greenland, South and North slope of Anticosti Island, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait), northern Gaspe...

Distribution Greenland, South and North slope of Anticosti Island, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Honguedo Strait), northern Gaspe waters, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle including the Mingan Islands), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), lower north Shore, Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone) to the northeast of Anticosti Island (=Jacques Cartier Strait), Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone)(=Esquiman Channel), lower Laurentian Channel (bathyal zone as far as Cabot Strait: Cape North, N.S., St. Paul Island to Cape Ray, NL.); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Limacina helicina (Phipps, 1774). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140223 on 2024-11-09

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2010-10-12 15:33:09Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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original description (of Clio helicina Phipps, 1774) Phipps C.J. (1774). A voyage towards the North Pole undertaken by His Majesty's command 1773. London. i-viii, 1-253., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15066869
page(s): 195 [details]

original description (of Argonauta arctica O. Fabricius, 1780) Fabricius, O. (1780). Fauna Groenlandica, systematice sistens animalia groenlandiae occidentalis hactenus indagata, quoad nomen specificium, triviale, vernaculumque, synonyma auctorum plurimum, descriptionem, locum, victum, generationem, mores, usum capturamque singuli, pro ut detegendi occasio fuit, maximaque parte secundum proprias observationes. Hafniae [= Copenhagen] & Lipsiae [= Leipzig], Ioannis Gottlob Rothe. xvi + 452 pp., 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13442285
page(s): 386-388 [details]

original description (of Limacina helicialis Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome 6(1): vi + 343 pp. Paris: published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441 [details]

original description (of Spiratella limacina Blainville, 1824) Defrance J.L.M. (1804-1845). [Mineralogie et Geologie] In: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles dans lequel on traite méthodiquement des diffrents êtres de la nature (par plusieurs professeurs du Jardin du Roi ..., F[rédéric] Cuvier, ed.). Paris. Vol. 1-2 [1804]. Vol. 3-4 [1806]. Suppl. 1 [1816]. Vol. 5-9 [1817]. Vol. 10-12 [1818]. Vol. 13-15 [1819]. Vol. 16-17 [1820]. Vol. 18-22 [1821]. Vol. 23-25 [1822]. Vol. 26-29 [1823]Vol. 30-33 [1824]. Vol. 34-38 [1825]. Vol. 39-44 [1826]. Vol. 45-51 [1827]. Vol. 52-53 [1828]. Vol. 54 [1829]. Vol. 55-57 [1828]. Vol. 58-59 [1829]. Vol. 60 [1830]. Vol. 61 [1845]. , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.42219 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [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 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 Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

additional source Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS). , available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

status source Hunt B., Strugnell J., Bednarsek N., Linse K., Nelson R.J., Pakhomov E., Seibel B., Steinke D. & Würzberg L. (2010). Poles apart: The "bipolar" pteropod species Limacina helicina is genetically distinct between the Arctic and Antarctic Oceans. PLoS One 5(3):e9835. [details]