North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Crisilla simulans (Locard, 1886)

Alvania simulans Locard, 1886
Specimen from Los Escullos, Almer, Spain (actual size 1.5 mm).

AphiaID

1473073 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1473073)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Crisilla Monterosato, 1917

Original name

Alvania simulans Locard, 1886

Synonymised names

Alvania simulans Locard, 1886 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Alvania simulans Locard, 1886) Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012
page(s): 250 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Crisilla simulans (Locard, 1886). 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=1473073 on 2026-06-08

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Crisilla simulans (Locard, 1886). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=1473073 on 2026-06-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2020-12-28 06:06:38Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Alvania simulans Locard, 1886) Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012
page(s): 250 [details]

new combination reference Romani, L.; Tisselli, M. & Nofroni, I. (2020). On the alleged presence of Crisilla perminima (Manzoni, 1868) in the Mediterranean Sea (Gastropoda: Littorinimorpha: Rissoidae), with notes on the taxonomy of Alvania simulans Locard, 1886. Bollettino Malacologico. 56 (2): 112-117. [details]