WoRMS taxon details
Fossarus ambiguus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 139998
AphiaID: 139998
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > [unassigned] Caenogastropoda (Order) > Cerithioidea (Superfamily) > Planaxidae (Family) > Fossarinae (Subfamily) > Fossarus (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Fossarus Philippi, 1841 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Fossarus adansoni Philippi, 1841 Fossarus aptus Melvill, 1912 Maravignia sicula Aradas & Maggiore, 1844 Stomatia kutschigi Brusina, 1865 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Houbrick R.S. 1990. Anatomy, reproductive biology and systematic position of Fossarus ambiguus (Linné) (Fossarinae: Planaxidae; Prosobranchia. Açoreana, suplemento 1990: 59-73. , available online at http://hdl.handle.net/10088/8093 [details] source of synonymy (from synonym): Warén A. & Bouchet P. (1988) A new species of Vanikoridae from the western Mediterranean, with remarks on the Northeast Atlantic species of the family. Bollettino Malacologico 24(5-8): 73-100. [details] [view taxon] source of synonymy (from synonym): Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System , available online at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/collections-management [details] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Angola [details] Aruba [details] Azores Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Bonaire [details] Cape Verde [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Cuba [details] Curaçao [details] Europe [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Macaronesian Islands [details] Portuguese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] South West Coast of Apulia [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Africa [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (51 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139998 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Fossarus ambiguus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=139998 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||
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