North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Turtonia Alder, 1848

Turtonia minuta

AphiaID

138616 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138616)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Venus minuta O. Fabricius, 1780 accepted as Turtonia minuta (O. Fabricius, 1780) (type by monotypy)

Type taxon of

Turtoniidae W. Clark, 1855

Parent

Turtoniinae W. Clark, 1855

Original name

Turtonia Alder, 1848

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Species Turtonia minuta (O. Fabricius, 1780)
Species Turtonia nitida A. E. Verrill, 1872 accepted as Turtonia minuta (O. Fabricius, 1780)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Alder J. (1848). Catalogue of the Mollusca of Northumberland and Durham. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalist's Field Club (1848): 97-209, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33670077
page(s): 189 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Turtonia Alder, 1848. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138616 on 2026-09-10

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Turtonia Alder, 1848. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138616 on 2026-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2010-07-26 12:06:42Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2012-02-15 19:44:53Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2013-03-30 15:37:11Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2025-11-11 15:04:12Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

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original description Alder J. (1848). Catalogue of the Mollusca of Northumberland and Durham. Transactions of the Tyneside Naturalist's Field Club (1848): 97-209, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/33670077
page(s): 189 [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 Ockelmann, K. W. (1964). Turtonia minuta (Fabricius), a neotenous Veneracean Bivalve. Ophelia. 1(1): 121-146., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00785326.1964.10416275 [details] Available for editors

additional source Scarlato, O. A. (1981). ????????????? ???????? ????????? ??? ??????-???????? ????? ?????? ??????. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. ???????????? ?? ????? ????. Guides to the fauna of the USSR. 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 pp.
page(s): 319 [details] Available for editors

additional source Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors