North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Bathyspinula excisa (R. A. Philippi, 1844)

AphiaID

141547 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141547)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Bathyspinula J. A. Allen & H. L. Sanders, 1982

Original name

Nucula excisa R. A. Philippi, 1844

Synonymised names

Leda excisa (R. A. Philippi, 1844) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Nucula excisa R. A. Philippi, 1844 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Nucula excisa R. A. Philippi, 1844) Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Bathyspinula excisa (R. A. Philippi, 1844). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141547 on 2026-06-29

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Bathyspinula excisa (R. A. Philippi, 1844). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=141547 on 2026-06-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2023-02-28 12:49:09Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

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original description (of Nucula excisa R. A. Philippi, 1844) Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System. [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 Di Geronimo, I.; La Perna, R. (1996). Bathyspinula excisa (Philippi, 1844)(Bivalvia, Protobranchia): a witness of the Plio-Quaternary history of the deep Mediterranean benthos. Rivista Italiana di Paleontologia e Stratigrafia. 102 (1): 105-118. [details] Available for editors

additional source La Perna, R. (2008). Revision of the protobranch species described by Dautzenberg and Fischer (1897) with description of a new species and taxonomic comments on Bathyspinula (Bivalvia, Nuculanoidea). The Veliger. 50(2), 149-162., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42497738
page(s): 157-159; note: compared to B. subexcisa (Dautzenberg & H. Fischer, 1897) [details]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]