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Turritellopsis acicula (W. Stimpson, 1851)
160077 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160077)
unaccepted > superseded combination
Species
- Subspecies Turritellopsis acicula stimpsoni Dall, 1919 accepted as Turritellopsis stimpsoni Dall, 1919
- Variety Turritellopsis acicula var. stimpsoni Dall, 1919 accepted as Turritellopsis stimpsoni Dall, 1919 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Turritella acicula W. Stimpson, 1851) Stimpson, W. (1851). On several new species of shells from the northern coast of New England. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4: 113-114., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870823 [details]
(of Turritella acicula W. Stimpson, 1851) Stimpson, W. (1851). paper containing notices of several species of Testaceous Mollusca new to Massachusetts Bay, including new species. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4: 12-19., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870738
page(s): 15-16 [details]
(of Turritella acicula W. Stimpson, 1851) Stimpson, W. (1851). paper containing notices of several species of Testaceous Mollusca new to Massachusetts Bay, including new species. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4: 12-19., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870738
page(s): 15-16 [details]
Distribution upstream and downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the...
Distribution upstream and downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), lower North Shore; western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland [details]
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original description
(of Turritella acicula W. Stimpson, 1851) Stimpson, W. (1851). On several new species of shells from the northern coast of New England. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4: 113-114., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870823 [details]
original description (of Turritella acicula W. Stimpson, 1851) Stimpson, W. (1851). paper containing notices of several species of Testaceous Mollusca new to Massachusetts Bay, including new species. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4: 12-19., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870738
page(s): 15-16 [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
additional source Johnson, C. W. (1934). List of marine Mollusca of the Atlantic coast from Labrador to Texas. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 40(1): 1-204.
page(s): p. 103. [details]
additional source Kobelt, W. (1888). Prodromus faunae molluscorum testaceorum marina europaea inhabitantium. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. <em>pp. IV + 550.</em> , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41069
page(s): p. 212. [details]
additional source Norman A.M. (1888). Museum Normanianum, or a catalogue of the Invertebrata of Europe, and the Arctic North Atlantic Oceans. IV Mollusca marina. V. Brachiopoda. Durham, privately printed. 30 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21272019
page(s): p. 13, n. 590. [details]
additional source Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp. Vol. 1 part 1: 1-376 [between 4 September and 21 October 1929]; Vol. 1 part 2: 377-778 [before 31 October 1931]; Vol. 2 part 3: 779-1022 [before 19 January 1934]; Vol. 2 part 4: i-iv, 1023-1154, i-vi for volume 1 [before 27 March 1935]. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): vol. 1, p. 182. [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Knipowitsch, N. W. (1901). Zoologische Ergebnisse der Russischen Expeditionen nach Spitzbergen. Mollusca und Brachiopoda. I. Ueber die in den Jahren 1899-1900 im Gebiete von Spitzbergen gesammelten recenten Mollusken und Brachiopoden. <em>Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg.</em> 6(4): 435-558, pl. 18-19.
page(s): p. 457. [details]
additional source Johnson, C. W. (1915). Fauna of New England. 13. List of the Mollusca. <em>Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 7: 1-231.
page(s): p. 123. [details]
additional source Smith, E. A. (1915). On the genera <i>Eglisia, Callostracum, Mesalia, Turritellopsis</i>, and <i>Tachyrhynchus</i>. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 8, 15(88): 360-377., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15613086
page(s): p. 372-373. [details]
additional source Kobelt, W. (1897) Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Bd. 1, Abt. 27. Die Gattung Turritella. Nürnberg, Baner & Raspe. pp. 1-81, pls 1-21
page(s): p. 67-68, n. 1, pl. 20, figs 10-11. [details]
additional source Cossmann, M. (1912). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Neuvième livraison. Paris, The author and J. Lamarre & Cie. 215 pp., 10 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/112976
page(s): p. 109. [details]
additional source Tryon, G. W. jr. (1883). Structural and Systematic Conchology: An introduction to the study of the Mollusca. Volume 2, pp. 430, pls. 23-91. Philadelphia (Tryon)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10930005
page(s): p. 224, pl. 67, fig. 56. [details]
new combination reference Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): p. 186-187, n. 93, pl. 10, figs 14a-b (shell), pl. 7, fig. 2 (radula), pl. 8, fig. 258 (operculum). [details]
original description (of Turritella acicula W. Stimpson, 1851) Stimpson, W. (1851). paper containing notices of several species of Testaceous Mollusca new to Massachusetts Bay, including new species. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4: 12-19., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870738
page(s): 15-16 [details]
additional source Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Johnson, C. W. (1934). List of marine Mollusca of the Atlantic coast from Labrador to Texas. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 40(1): 1-204.
page(s): p. 103. [details]
additional source Kobelt, W. (1888). Prodromus faunae molluscorum testaceorum marina europaea inhabitantium. Bauer & Raspe, Nürnberg. <em>pp. IV + 550.</em> , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41069
page(s): p. 212. [details]
additional source Norman A.M. (1888). Museum Normanianum, or a catalogue of the Invertebrata of Europe, and the Arctic North Atlantic Oceans. IV Mollusca marina. V. Brachiopoda. Durham, privately printed. 30 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/21272019
page(s): p. 13, n. 590. [details]
additional source Thiele, J. (1929-1935). Handbuch der systematischen Weichtierkunde. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1154 pp. Vol. 1 part 1: 1-376 [between 4 September and 21 October 1929]; Vol. 1 part 2: 377-778 [before 31 October 1931]; Vol. 2 part 3: 779-1022 [before 19 January 1934]; Vol. 2 part 4: i-iv, 1023-1154, i-vi for volume 1 [before 27 March 1935]. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): vol. 1, p. 182. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Knipowitsch, N. W. (1901). Zoologische Ergebnisse der Russischen Expeditionen nach Spitzbergen. Mollusca und Brachiopoda. I. Ueber die in den Jahren 1899-1900 im Gebiete von Spitzbergen gesammelten recenten Mollusken und Brachiopoden. <em>Annuaire du Musée Zoologique de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St.-Pétersbourg.</em> 6(4): 435-558, pl. 18-19.
page(s): p. 457. [details]
additional source Johnson, C. W. (1915). Fauna of New England. 13. List of the Mollusca. <em>Occasional Papers of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 7: 1-231.
page(s): p. 123. [details]
additional source Smith, E. A. (1915). On the genera <i>Eglisia, Callostracum, Mesalia, Turritellopsis</i>, and <i>Tachyrhynchus</i>. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> ser. 8, 15(88): 360-377., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15613086
page(s): p. 372-373. [details]
additional source Kobelt, W. (1897) Systematisches Conchylien-Cabinet von Martini und Chemnitz. Bd. 1, Abt. 27. Die Gattung Turritella. Nürnberg, Baner & Raspe. pp. 1-81, pls 1-21
page(s): p. 67-68, n. 1, pl. 20, figs 10-11. [details]
additional source Cossmann, M. (1912). Essais de paléoconchologie comparée. Neuvième livraison. Paris, The author and J. Lamarre & Cie. 215 pp., 10 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/112976
page(s): p. 109. [details]
additional source Tryon, G. W. jr. (1883). Structural and Systematic Conchology: An introduction to the study of the Mollusca. Volume 2, pp. 430, pls. 23-91. Philadelphia (Tryon)., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10930005
page(s): p. 224, pl. 67, fig. 56. [details]
new combination reference Sars, G. O. (1878). Bidrag til Kundskaben om Norges arktiske Fauna. I. Mollusca Regionis Arcticae Norvegiae. Oversigt over de i Norges arktiske Region Forekommende Bløddyr. Brøgger, Christiania, xiii + 466 pp., pls 1-34 & I-XVIII., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/92496
page(s): p. 186-187, n. 93, pl. 10, figs 14a-b (shell), pl. 7, fig. 2 (radula), pl. 8, fig. 258 (operculum). [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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Dimensions maximum size of 8 to 10 mm [details]Distribution upstream and downstream part of middle St. Lawrence estuary, lower St. Lawrence estuary, Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway), lower North Shore; western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland [details]
Habitat infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
