North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

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Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817

Umbraculum umbraculum

AphiaID

138620 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138620)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Umbraculidae Dall, 1889 (1827)

Original name

Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817

Synonymised names

Gastroplax Blainville, 1819 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

Umbrella Lamarck, 1819 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

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Species Umbraculum umbraculum ([Lightfoot], 1786)
Species Umbraculum mediterraneum (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Umbraculum umbraculum ([Lightfoot], 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 55, 177 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138620 on 2026-09-15

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138620 on 2026-09-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gofas, Serge

2006-09-28 06:51:36Z

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Martinez, Olga

2010-12-06 19:47:52Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2013-10-10 09:49:02Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2020-02-08 21:07:03Z

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Marshall, Bruce

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original description Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 55, 177 [details]

original description (of Gastroplax Blainville, 1819) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1819). Sur l'animal de la Patella ombracula de Chemnitz. Bulletin des Sciences, par la Socciété Philomathique de Paris. 1819: 178-182., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4438248 [details]

original description (of Umbrella Lamarck, 1819) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1819). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome sixième, 1re partie, vi + 343 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47441
page(s): Volume 6(1): 339-343 [details]

basis of record Willan, R. C. & Burn, R. (2003). On the publication date, authorship, and type species of Umbraculum and Tylodina (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Tylodinoidea): a rejoinder. The Nautilus. 117 (1): 23-29., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8525333 [details]

additional source Govoni, D. L. (1983). Gastropod Molluscs from the Brightseat Formation (Paleocene: Danian) of Maryland. Unpublished MS Thesis, The George Washington University, Washington, D. C., 238 pp. + 15 pls.
page(s): 202-203, pl. 15, figs. 8-10; note: as Umbraculum>? sp. indet. [details] Available for editors

additional source Govoni, D. L., Crowley, K. D., Hansen, T. A. & Allmon, W. D. (2025). Gastropod mollusks from the Brightseat Formation (Paleocene: Danian) of Maryland. Bulletins of American Paleontology. No. 412: 1-103, text-figs. 1-60., available online at https://doi.org/10.32857/bap.2025.412.01
page(s): 77, text-fig. 54; note: as Umbrachulum? sp. indet. [details] Available for editors

additional source Valdés, Á. (2001). On the publication date, authorship, and species of Umbraculum and Tylodina (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Tylodinoidea). The Nautilus. 15(1): 29-34, figs. 1-3., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8097149 [details]

additional source Wägele, H., Vonnemann, V. & Rudman, W. B. (2006). Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786) (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Tylodinoidea) and the synonymy of U. mediterraneum (Lamarck, 1812). Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement. 69, 69-82., available online at http://10.18195/issn.0313-122x.69.2006.069-082 [details]