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(of Anomia tridentata Forsskål, 1775) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 124-125 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution 43°N to 46°S; 97°W to 0°W (Malacalog), Newfoundland to Gulf of Mexico (Abbott 1974), live 0 to 30 m

Distribution 43°N to 46°S; 97°W to 0°W (Malacalog), Newfoundland to Gulf of Mexico (Abbott 1974), live 0 to 30 m [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cavolinia tridentata (Forsskål, 1775). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139030 on 2025-07-13

Taxonomic edit history

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Marshall, Bruce

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Marshall, Bruce

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Marshall, Bruce

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Nomenclature

original description (of Anomia tridentata Forsskål, 1775) Forskål P. (1775). Descriptiones Animalium, Avium, Amphibiorum, Piscium, Insectorum, Vermium; quae in Itinere Orientali Observavit Petrus Forskål. Post Mortem Auctoris editit Carsten Niebuhr. Adjuncta est materia Medica Kahirina. Mölleri, Hafniae, 19 + xxxiv + 164 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2088059
page(s): 124-125 [details]

original description (of Cavolinia natans Abildgaard, 1791) Abildgaard P. C. (1791). Nyere Efterretning om det Skaldyr fra Middelhavet, som Forskål har beskrevet under Navn af Anomia tridentata.. Skrifter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet 1 (2): 171-175, pl. 10 [details]

original description (of Cleodora trifilis Troschel, 1854) Troschel F. H. (1854). Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Pteropoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 20 (1): 196-241, pl. 8-10, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7074829 [details]

original description (of Monoculus telemus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Hyalaea cumingii G. B. Sowerby II, 1877) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1877). Monograph of the genus Pteropoda. In: Conchologia iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 20: pls 1-6 and unpaginated text. L. A. Reeve, London. [1877, no month date]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8230531 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea forskalii Blainville, 1821) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1821). Hyale, Hyalæa (Malacoz.), pp. 65-83, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 22. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23050902
page(s): 79-80 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea papilionacea Bory de St. Vincent, 1804) Bory de Saint-Vincent, J. B. G. M. (1804). Voyage dans les quatre principales îles des mers d'Afrique ... pendant les années neuf et dix de la République (1801 et 1802), avec l'histoire de la traversée du Capitaine Baudin jusqu'au Port-Louis de l'Ile Maurice. Tome Premier. pp. i-xv [xvi = errata], 1-408. [details]

original description (of Hyalaea peronii Lesueur, 1813) Lesueur C.A. (1813). Mémoire sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'animaux mollusques et radiaires recueillis dans la Méditerranée près de Nice. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris. (2) 3 (69): 281-285, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4122254 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea rangii Deshayes, 1832) Deshayes, G. P. (1830-1832). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières. Histoire naturelle des Vers et Mollusques. Vol. 2: viii+1-594 [part 1: i-vi, 1-256, Livraison 101, 1 Feb 1830; part 2: 1-144, Livraison 101, 1 Feb. 1830; 145-594, Livraison 102, 29 Sept. 1832]. Vol. 3: 595-1152 [Livraison 102, 29 Sept. 1832]. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.8638
page(s): 310 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea teniobranchea Lamarck, 1816) Lamarck, [J. B. P. A. de M. de]. (1816). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques et polypes divers. Part 23 [Livraison 84, 14 December 1816], Tome 3, pp. 1-16, pls. 391-431, 431 bis, 431 bis*, 432-488, Paris: Vve Agasse., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37162278 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea tricuspidata Bowdich, 1822) Bowdich, T.E. (1822). Elements of conchology, including the fossil genera and the animals. Part I. Univalves. 79 pp., 19 pls. Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/45861 [details]

original description (of Hyalea melly Benoit, 1843) Benoit, L. (1843). Ricerce Malacologiche. Farfalletta, Opera periodica scientifica letteraria artistica Messina. 11: 16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34807555
page(s): 4 [reprint]; pl. 1 fig. 3 [details]

original description (of Pleuropus longifilis Troschel, 1854) Troschel F. H. (1854). Beitrage zur Kenntniss der Pteropoden. Archiv für Naturgeschichte, Berlin, 20 (1): 196-241, pl. 8-10, available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7074829 [details]

original description (of Cavolinia tridentata kraussi Tesch, 1913) Tesch, J. J. (1913). Pteropoda [in. Das Tierreich. 36: 1-154., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/15721
page(s): 51 [details]

original description (of Cavolinia tridentata f. atlantica van der Spoel, 1974) van der Spoel, S. (1974). Geographical variation in Cavolinia tridentata (Mollusca, Pteropoda). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 44(1): 100-112., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/504420
page(s): 106 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Cavolinia tridentata f. bermudensis van der Spoel, 1974) van der Spoel, S. (1974). Geographical variation in Cavolinia tridentata (Mollusca, Pteropoda). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 44(1): 100-112., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/504420
page(s): 105, figs 4d, 6a [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Cavolinia tridentata f. dakarensis van der Spoel, 1974) van der Spoel, S. (1974). Geographical variation in Cavolinia tridentata (Mollusca, Pteropoda). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 44(1): 100-112., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/504420
page(s): 105 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Cavolinia tridentata f. teschi van der Spoel, 1974) van der Spoel, S. (1974). Geographical variation in Cavolinia tridentata (Mollusca, Pteropoda). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 44(1): 100-112., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/504420
page(s): 107 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Cavolinia tridentata f. danae van der Spoel, 1974) van der Spoel, S. (1974). Geographical variation in Cavolinia tridentata (Mollusca, Pteropoda). Bijdragen tot de Dierkunde. 44(1): 100-112., available online at https://repository.naturalis.nl/pub/504420
page(s): 107 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Cavolina occidentalis Dall, 1908) Dall, W. H. (1908). Reports on the dredging operations off the west coast of Central America to the Galapagos, to the west coast of Mexico, and in the Gulf of California, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, carried on by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross," during 1891, Lieut.-Commander Z.L. Tanner, U.S.N., commanding. XXXVII. Reports on the scientific results of the expedition to the eastern tropical Pacific, in charge of Alexander Agassiz, by the U.S. Fish Commission steamer "Albatross", from October, 1904 to March, 1905, Lieut.-Commander L.M. Garrett, U.S.N., commanding. XIV. The Mollusca and Brachiopoda. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. 43(6): 205-487, pls 1-22., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28878051
page(s): pl 12, fig. 1 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea affinis A. d'Orbigny, 1835) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea australis F. Péron & Lesueur, 1807) Péron, F. [& L. Freycinet]. (1807-1816). Voyage de découvertes aux Terres Australes, exécuté par ordre de sa Majesté l'Empereur et Roi,. ... pendant les années 1800. 1801, 1802, 1803 et 1804. Paris. I: xv + 496 pp. [1807]; II: xxxi + 471 pp. [1816]; Atlas, 65 pls & maps. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.44096
page(s): pl. 31, fig. 5 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea chemnitziana Lesueur, 1813) Lesueur C.A. (1813). Mémoire sur quelques nouvelles espèces d'animaux mollusques et radiaires recueillis dans la Méditerranée près de Nice. Nouveau Bulletin des Sciences, par la Société Philomatique de Paris. (2) 3 (69): 281-285, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/4122254 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea complanata Gegenbaur, 1855) Gegenbaur, C. (1855). Untersuchungen uber Pteropoden un Heteropoden. Ein Beitrag zur anatomie und Entiwicklungsgeschichte dieser Thiere. Wilhelm Engelmann, Leipzig pp. 228 pl. 1-8. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12924521 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea cornea Lamarck, 1801) Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. Published by the author and Deterville, Paris. : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719 [details]

original description (of Hyalaea truncata Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 34, pl. 2, fig. 12. [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]

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additional source Rolán E. (2005). Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. ConchBooks. Hackenheim. ISBN 3-325319-73-2. 455 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Distribution 43°N to 46°S; 97°W to 0°W (Malacalog), Newfoundland to Gulf of Mexico (Abbott 1974), live 0 to 30 m [details]

authority (Niebuhr, 1775) [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
English	threetoothed cavolinethree-tooth cavolineLeaf Sea Butterfly	[details]
German	Dreizahn-Seeschmetterling	[details]
Japanese	カメガイ	[details]