Canadian Register of Marine Species - Onoba aculeus (A. A. Gould, 1841)

CaRMS taxon details

Onoba aculeus (A. A. Gould, 1841)

AphiaID

141308 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141308)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Onoba H. Adams & A. Adams, 1852

Original name

Cingula aculeus A. A. Gould, 1841

Synonymised names

Alvania multilineata (W. Stimpson, 1851) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of ) Gould, A.A. (1841). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Comprising the Mollusca, Crustacea, Annelida, and Radiata. Published Agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge,. xiii + 373 pp., 15 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76081
page(s): 266; fig. 172 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Range: 72°N to 41.2°N; 73.1°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada:...

Distribution Range: 72°N to 41.2°N; 73.1°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Newfoundland, Gulf of St. Lawrence, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut; Eastern Atlantic: Iceland [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Onoba aculeus (A. Gould, 1841). Accessed through: Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2025) Canadian Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/CaRMS/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141308 on 2026-06-17

Regional species database citation

Nozères, C., Kennedy, M.K. (Eds.) (2026). Canadian Register of Marine Species. Onoba aculeus (A. A. Gould, 1841). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/carms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141308 on 2026-06-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2016-06-04 12:32:33Z

changed

Faber, Marien

2022-09-16 18:17:03Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

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original description (of ) Gould, A.A. (1841). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Comprising the Mollusca, Crustacea, Annelida, and Radiata. Published Agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge,. xiii + 373 pp., 15 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76081
page(s): 266; fig. 172 [details]

additional source Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source 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]

additional source Bromley, J.E.C. & J.S. Bleakney. (1985). Keys to the fauna and flora of Minas Basin. National Research Council of Canada Report, Halifax, N.S. 24119: 366 PP. [details]

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

additional source Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p. [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 https://web.archive.org/web/20250405073114/http://www.malacolog.org/ [details]

additional source Warén, A. (1996). New and little known mollusca from Iceland and Scandinavia. Part 3. Sarsia. 81: 197-245., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/31809.pdf
page(s): p. 228, figs 20E-H, 21D-E. [details] Available for editors

additional source Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324., available online at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/kb/files/9793/TROTT-Cobscook%20List.pdf [details] Available for editors

additional source Amati, B.; Nofroni, I. (2015). The Recent Rissoidae of the Mediterranean Sea. Notes on the genus Onoba s.s. H. Adams et A. Adams, 1852 (Gastropoda, Prosobranchia). Biodiversity Journal. 6 (1): 467-482., available online at http://www.biodiversityjournal.com/pdf/6(1)_467-480.pdf [details] Available for editors

additional source Nekhaev, I. O.; Deart, Y. V.; Lubin, P. A. (2014). Molluscs of the genus Onoba H. Adams et A. Adams, 1852 from the Barents Sea and adjacent waters (Gastropoda: Rissoidae). Proceedings of the Institute RAS. 318(3): 268-279., available online at https://doi.org/10.31610/trudyzin/2014.318.3.268
page(s): 272-273 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Dimensions maximum size of 2.5 mm in length [details]

Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Danish	slank tangsnegl	[details]
Dutch	slank gordelslakje	[details]
English	pointed cingula	[details]
French	cingula pointue	[details]
German	Spitze Kleinschnecke	[details]