North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Oenopota elegans (Møller, 1842)

AphiaID

139317 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139317)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Oenopota Mörch, 1852

Original name

Defrancia elegans Møller, 1842

Synonymised names

Defrancia elegans Møller, 1842 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Defrancia elegans Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910
page(s): 86 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Oenopota elegans (Møller, 1842). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139317 on 2026-06-20

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Oenopota elegans (Møller, 1842). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=139317 on 2026-06-20

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2009-12-02 14:47:43Z

changed

Tucker, John

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original description (of Defrancia elegans Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift. 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910
page(s): 86 [details]

taxonomy source Schiøtte, T.; A H P C Warén. (1992). An annotated and illustrated list of the types of Mollusca described by Møller from West Greenland. Meddelelser om Grønland, Bioscience. 35: 1-34., available online at https://doi.org/10.7146/mogbiosci.v35.142457 [details] Available for editors

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 Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Rosenberg, G. (2004). Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at https://web.archive.org/web/20250405073114/http://www.malacolog.org/ [details]

additional source Bogdanov, I. (1990). Mollusks of Oenopotinae Subfamily (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) of the seas of the USSR [???????? ?.?. 1990. ???????? ???????????? Oenopotinae (Gastropoda, Pectinibranchia, Turridae) ????? ????. ????? ????, ????????, ??? 5, ???. 3, 223 p]. Fauna SSSR,. Mollyuski, vol. 5, No. 3, 223 p. [In Russian]. [details] Available for editors