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Crepidula plana Say, 1822 
AphiaID: 160230

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Gastropoda (Class) > Caenogastropoda (Subclass) > Littorinimorpha (Order) > Calyptraeoidea (Superfamily) > Calyptraeidae (Family) > Crepidula (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Ianacus Mörch, 1852
Parent Crepidula Lamarck, 1799
Synonymised
taxa
  Crepidula lamina H. C. Lea, 1843
Crepidula rhyssema Olsson & Harbison, 1953
Sources  original description: Say T. (1822). An account of some of the marine shells of the United States. Jour. Acad. Nat Sci. Phila, vol. 2  [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: Bromley, J.E.C., and J.S. Bleakney. 1984. Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report 24119. 366 p.  [details]

additional source: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

additional source: Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details]

additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324.
page(s): 300 [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 [details]

from synonym: Hoagland, K.E. 1977. Systematic review of fossil and recent Crepidula and discussion of the evolution of the Calyptraeidae. Malacologia 16(2): 353-420. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English eastern white slippersnail  [details]
French crépidule plate  [details]
Distribution Belize [details]
Caribbean Sea [details]
Colombia [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Cuba [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Jamaica [details]
Lesser Antilles [details]
Mexico [details]
Minas Basin [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Panama [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Venezuela [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (282 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: maximum size of 15 to 35 mm [details]

Distribution: Range: 48°N to 38°S; 97.75°W to 34.9°W. Distribution: Canada; Canada: Nova Scotia, New Brunswick; USA: Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida; Florida: East Florida, West Florida; USA: Louisiana, Flower Garden Banks (East & West), Texas; Mexico; Mexico: Tamaulipas, Tabasco, Veracruz, Campeche State, Cayo Arcas, Campeche, Yucatan State, Campeche Bank, Alacran Reef, Quintana Roo; Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Venezuela; Venezuela: Gulf of Venezuela, Sucre, Isla Margarita; Bermuda, Jamaica; Virgin Islands: St. Croix; St. Vincent & the Grenadines: Grenada; Surinam, Brazil; Brazil: Amapa, Ceara, Pernambuco, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo [details]

Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
Images 
Crepidula plana
Crepidula plana
added on 2011-03-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Roberta Miller ()
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Crepidula plana
Crepidula plana
added on 2011-03-02 - author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, Roberta Miller
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:160230
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-31 07:34:34Z  created  Claus, Simon
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z  checked  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Crepidula plana. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160230 on 2013-05-22
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