MSBIAS - Arcuatula senhousia (W. H. Benson, 1842)

MSBIAS taxon details

Arcuatula senhousia (W. H. Benson, 1842)

Arcuatula senhousia (Benson in Cantor, 1842)
Specimen from La Goulette, Tunisia among algae, 31 03 2009), actual size 10 mm.

AphiaID

505946 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505946)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Arcuatula Jousseaume, 1919

Original name

Modiola senhousia W. H. Benson, 1842

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Benson, W. H. (1842). Mollusca. in: T. Cantor, General features of Chusan, with remarks on the flora and fauna of that island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9(60): 486-490., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18684698
page(s): 489 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Arcuatula senhousia (W. H. Benson, 1842). Accessed through: The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026) Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505946 on 2026-04-04

Regional species database citation

The UK Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (2026). Marine Species of Britain, Ireland and Adjacent Seas (MSBIAS): a checklist of species derived from the UNICORN and Marine Recorder applications. Arcuatula senhousia (W. H. Benson, 1842). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/msbias/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505946 on 2026-04-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2016-08-10 02:51:40Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2020-04-25 20:15:52Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description (of ) Benson, W. H. (1842). Mollusca. in: T. Cantor, General features of Chusan, with remarks on the flora and fauna of that island. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 9(60): 486-490., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/18684698
page(s): 489 [details]

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors

context source (HKRMS) Fong, C. W. (1998). Some aspects of the ecology of the seagrass Zostera japonica in Hong Kong. MPhil thesis. The University of Hong Kong. [details]

basis of record Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Corriero, G., C. Pierri, S. Accoroni, G.Alabiso, G. Bavestrello, E. Barbone, M. Bastianini, A.M. Bazzoni, F. Bernardi Aubry, F. Boero, M.C. Buia, M. Cabrini, E. Camatti, F. Cardone, B. Cataletto, R. Cattaneo Vietti, E. Cecere, T. Cibic, P. Colangelo, A. De Olazabal, G. D'onghia, S. Finotto, N. Fiore, D. Fornasaro, S. Fraschetti, M.C. Gambi, A. Giangrande, C. Gravili, R. Guglielmo, C. Longo, M. Lorenti, A. Lugliè, P. Maiorano, M.G. Mazzocchi, M. Mercurio, F. Mastrototaro, M. Mistri, M. Monti, C. Munari, L. Musco, C. Nonnis-Marzano, B.M. Padedda, F.P. Patti, A. Petrocelli, S. Piraino, G. Portacci, A. Pugnetti, S. Pulina, T. Romagnoli, I. Rosati, D. Sarno, C.T. Satta, N. Sechi, S. Schiaparelli, B. Scipione, L. Sion, A. Terlizzi, V. Tirelli, C. Totti, A. Tursi, N. Ungaro, A. Zingone, V. Zupo & A. Basset. (2015). Ecosystem vulnerability to alien and invasive species: a case study on marine habitats along the Italian coast. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems. 26(2):392-409., available online at https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2550 [details] Available for editors

additional source Marchini, A., J. Ferrario, A. Sfriso & A. Occhipinti-Ambrogi. (2015). Current status and trends of biological invasions in the Lagoon of Venice, a hotspot of marine NIS introductions in the Mediterranean Sea. Biological Invasions. 17:2943–2962., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-015-0922-3 [details] Available for editors

ecology source Watson, G. J.; Dyos, J.; Barfield, P.; Stebbing, P.; Dey, K. G. (2021). Evidence for self-sustaining populations of Arcuatula senhousia in the UK and a review of this species' potential impacts within Europe. Scientific Reports. 11(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86876-x [details]