Chinese Register of Marine Species - Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817

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Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817

Umbraculum umbraculum

AphiaID

138620 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138620)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Umbraculidae Dall, 1889 (1827)

Original name

Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817

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Species Umbraculum umbraculum ([Lightfoot], 1786)
Species Umbraculum pulchrum G.-Y. Lin, 1981 accepted as Umbraculum umbraculum ([Lightfoot], 1786) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 55, 177 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138620 on 2026-07-11

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Umbraculum Schumacher, 1817. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138620 on 2026-07-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-09-28 06:51:36Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2010-12-06 19:47:52Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2013-10-10 09:49:02Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2020-02-08 21:07:03Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 55, 177 [details]

basis of record Willan, R. C. & Burn, R. (2003). On the publication date, authorship, and type species of Umbraculum and Tylodina (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Tylodinoidea): a rejoinder. The Nautilus. 117 (1): 23-29., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8525333 [details]

additional source Govoni, D. L., Crowley, K. D., Hansen, T. A. & Allmon, W. D. (2025). Gastropod mollusks from the Brightseat Formation (Paleocene: Danian) of Maryland. Bulletins of American Paleontology. No. 412: 1-103, text-figs. 1-60., available online at https://doi.org/10.32857/bap.2025.412.01
page(s): 77, text-fig. 54; note: as Umbrachulum? sp. indet. [details] Available for editors

additional source Govoni, D. L. (1983). Gastropod Molluscs from the Brightseat Formation (Paleocene: Danian) of Maryland. Unpublished MS Thesis, The George Washington University, Washington, D. C., 238 pp. + 15 pls.
page(s): 202-203, pl. 15, figs. 8-10; note: as Umbraculum>? sp. indet. [details] Available for editors

additional source Valdés, Á. (2001). On the publication date, authorship, and species of Umbraculum and Tylodina (Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia: Tylodinoidea). The Nautilus. 15(1): 29-34, figs. 1-3., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8097149 [details]

additional source Wägele, H., Vonnemann, V. & Rudman, W. B. (2006). Umbraculum umbraculum (Lightfoot, 1786) (Gastropoda, Opisthobranchia, Tylodinoidea) and the synonymy of U. mediterraneum (Lamarck, 1812). Records of the Western Australian Museum Supplement. 69, 69-82., available online at http://10.18195/issn.0313-122x.69.2006.069-082 [details]