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Limopsis aurita (Brocchi, 1814)

Limopsis aurita (Brocchi, 1814)
Specimens from Djibouti Banks, Alboran Sea (actual size 10 mm including hairs)

AphiaID

140252 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140252)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Limopsis Sasso, 1827

Original name

Arca aurita Brocchi, 1814

Synonymised names

Arca aurita Brocchi, 1814 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Limopsis dumasi Cossmann & Peyrot, 1923 † · unaccepted

Limopsis woodi (Mayer, 1868) † · unaccepted

Trigonocoelia woodi Mayer, 1868 † · unaccepted

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Variety Limopsis aurita var. paucidentata Dall, 1886 accepted as Limopsis paucidentata Dall, 1886 (unaccepted > superseded rank)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Arca aurita Brocchi, 1814) Brocchi, G. B. (1814). Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Tomo Secondo. pp. 241-712, pls 1-16. Stamperia Reale, Milano., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12009101
page(s): 485, pl. 11 fig. 9 [details]

Type data

Note Northern Italy (Pliocene fossil)

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Type locality Northern Italy (Pliocene fossil) [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Eastern Atlantic, from Iceland and Norway to southern Morocco, also in the Canary Islands and the Azores; Mediterranean....

Distribution Eastern Atlantic, from Iceland and Norway to southern Morocco, also in the Canary Islands and the Azores; Mediterranean. Gorringe, Ampère, Josephine and Seine seamounts, common in 180-545 m; not found in the Meteor group seamounts.
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Status Simone (2024) restricted the name Limopsis aurita to European fossils, and for the Recent Western Atlantic populations used...

Status Simone (2024) restricted the name Limopsis aurita to European fossils, and for the Recent Western Atlantic populations used the name L. paucidentata, initially established by Dall as a variety of L. aurita. Simone did not discuss the status and identity of the Recent European populations. The name L. aurita is tentatively conserved for these specimens, pending a more thorough re-evaluation of their relationship to the fossils. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limopsis aurita (Brocchi, 1814). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140252 on 2025-04-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2025-03-26 10:44:19Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Arca aurita Brocchi, 1814) Brocchi, G. B. (1814). Conchiologia fossile subapennina con osservazioni geologiche sugli apennini e sul suolo adiacente. Tomo Secondo. pp. 241-712, pls 1-16. Stamperia Reale, Milano., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12009101
page(s): 485, pl. 11 fig. 9 [details]

original description (of Trigonocoelia woodi Mayer, 1868 †) Mayer, C. (1868). Catalogue systématique et descriptif des fossiles des terrains Tertiaires qui se trouvent au Musée Fédéral de Zurich. Troisième Cahier. Mollusques, Famille des Arcidés. Schabelitz, Zurich, 124 p. , available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=kyg-AAAAcAAJ
page(s): 57, 118 [details]

Identification resource

identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 169 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Janssen, R. & Krylova, E. M. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Bivalvia. Invertebrate Zoology. 11 (1): 43–82 [in English]. [details] Available for editors

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additional source 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]

Present

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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Biology Type of larval development: short planktonic (non-planktotrophic) inferred from prodissoconch morphology (Malchus & Warén, 2005) [details]

Diagnosis Shell up to 15 mm in height, solid, variable in shape from almost circular to obliquely oval, with a straight dorsal margin. Umbo small but prominent, situated in the middle of the hinge line. Ligament small, situated in a triangular resilifer below the umbo. Sculpture of flat comarginal cords, much wider than the interspaces, and fine radial striae, mostly marked in the interspaces of the cords. Hinge plate wide and arched, with 8 anterior and about 9 posterior teeth, both series decreasing in size towards the umbo, where they may even be superimposed in large specimens. Inner margin of valves smooth, beveled to a flat contact surface between valves. Exterior of shell dirty white. Periostracum forming yellowish-brown, hairy projections which are arranged radially, becoming more dense and longer near the margins. [details]