WoRMS taxon details

Retusa pertenuis (Mighels, 1843)

236793  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:236793)

accepted
Species
Bulla pertenuis Mighels, 1843 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Bulla pertenuis Mighels, 1843) Mighels, J. W. (1843). Descriptions of six species of shells, regarded as new. <em>Boston Journal of Natural History.</em> 4: 345-350, pl. 16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5363092 [details]   
Note Casco Bay, Maine, USA  
From editor or global species database
Type locality Casco Bay, Maine, USA [details]
Distribution "Retusa pertenuis geographic range encompasses the North Atlantic, Eurasia’s northern seas, the Canadian Arctic, the...  
Distribution "Retusa pertenuis geographic range encompasses the North Atlantic, Eurasia’s northern seas, the Canadian Arctic, the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan" [details]

Taxonomy Although this is generally held as a junior synonym of Retusa obtusa followinge Lemche, 1948 (Northern and Arctic...  
Taxonomy Although this is generally held as a junior synonym of Retusa obtusa followinge Lemche, 1948 (Northern and Arctic tectibranch gastropods. Biol. Skr. 5 (3): 1-136), Chaban et al. (2023) has shown this is a distinct species. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Retusa pertenuis (Mighels, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=236793 on 2024-03-29
Date
action
by
2007-01-26 15:11:13Z
created
2008-08-17 21:09:07Z
changed
2008-08-21 16:42:19Z
changed
2023-08-30 12:54:03Z
changed

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original description  (of Bulla pertenuis Mighels, 1843) Mighels, J. W. (1843). Descriptions of six species of shells, regarded as new. <em>Boston Journal of Natural History.</em> 4: 345-350, pl. 16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5363092 [details]   

basis of record Kantor, Y.I. & Sysoev, A.V. (eds), 2005. Catalogue of molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. Moscow [details]   

status source Chaban, E.; Ekimova, I.; Stanovova, M.; Schepetov, D. (2023). Integrative Analysis of Retusa pertenuis (Heterobranchia: Cephalaspidea) from Arctic and Russian Far East Seas with Discussion of Its Morphology, Validity and Population Structure. <em>Diversity.</em> 15(9): 974., available online at https://doi.org/10.3390/d15090974 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
From editor or global species database
Distribution "Retusa pertenuis geographic range encompasses the North Atlantic, Eurasia’s northern seas, the Canadian Arctic, the Bering Sea, the Sea of Okhotsk and the Sea of Japan" [details]

Taxonomy Although this is generally held as a junior synonym of Retusa obtusa followinge Lemche, 1948 (Northern and Arctic tectibranch gastropods. Biol. Skr. 5 (3): 1-136), Chaban et al. (2023) has shown this is a distinct species. [details]

Type locality Casco Bay, Maine, USA [details]