WoRMS taxon details
Lepeta caeca (O. F. Müller, 1776)
AphiaID: 140187
AphiaID: 140187
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Patellogastropoda (Subclass) > Lottioidea (Superfamily) > Lepetidae (Family) > Lepeta (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Lepeta Gray, 1847 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Lepeta caeca caeca (O. F. Müller, 1776) Lepeta caeca pacifica Moskalev, 1977 Lepeta caecoides Carpenter, 1864 Patella caeca O. F. Müller, 1776 (original combination) | ||||||||||
| 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: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 page(s): 56 [details] additional source: Gulbin V.V. & Chaban E.M. (2012) Annotated list of shell-bearing gastropods of Commander Islands. Part I. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society 15-16: 5–30. [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] from synonym: Smith, S.M.; Heppell, D. (1991). Checklist of the British marine Mollusca. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1): 79–99. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls. (look up in IMIS) page(s): 16 [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] | ||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Lepeta caeca caeca (O. F. Müller, 1776) accepted as Lepeta caeca (O. F. Müller, 1776) Subspecies Lepeta caeca pacifica Moskalev, 1977 accepted as Lepeta caeca (O. F. Müller, 1776) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (89 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: maximum size of 6 mm [details] Distribution: Rare in the British Isles [details] Distribution: Arctic seas to Cape Cod, Massachusetts [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140187 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Gofas, S. (2013). Lepeta caeca (O. F. Müller, 1776). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140187 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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