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Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791)

140525  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140525)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Gastropoda (Class)
  5. Caenogastropoda (Subclass)
  6. Littorinimorpha (Order)
  7. Naticoidea (Superfamily)
  8. Naticidae (Family)
  9. Naticinae (Subfamily)
  10. Cryptonatica (Genus)
  11. Cryptonatica affinis (Species)
accepted
Species
Boreonatica clausa (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cryptonatica clausa (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cryptonatica salimba Dall, 1919 · unaccepted (synonym)
Euspira acosmita Dall, 1919 · unaccepted (synonym)
Natica algida A. Gould, 1848 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Natica clausa var. minor R. A. Philippi, 1852 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Natica consolidata Couthouy, 1838 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (synonym)
Natica russa Dall, 1874 · unaccepted > nomen nudum (synonym)
Natica septentrionalis Møller, 1842 · unaccepted (synonym)
Tectonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Tectonatica clausa (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Nerita affinis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3675 [details] OpenAccess publication
Note "Habitat in Oceano septentrionali", the...  
Type locality "Habitat in Oceano septentrionali", the precise locality is not stated [details]
Distribution Range: 82°N to 36°N; 130°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: North Greenland, West Greenland, East Greenland;...  
Distribution Range: 82°N to 36°N; 130°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: North Greenland, West Greenland, East Greenland; Baffin Bay, Canada; Canada: Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin Island, Labrador, Newfoundland, Quebec, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140525 on 2025-09-11
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Gofas, Serge
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original description (of Cryptonatica salimba Dall, 1919) Dall, W. H. (1919). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 56 (2295): 293-371., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7766313 [details] 

original description (of Euspira acosmita Dall, 1919) Dall, W. H. (1919). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca from the North Pacific Ocean in the collection of the United States National Museum. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 56 (2295): 293-371., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7766313
page(s): 352. [details] 

original description (of Natica algida A. Gould, 1848) Gould, A.A. (1848). [Shells collected by the United States Exploring Expedition under the command of Charles Wilkes.]. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 3: 73–75., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870375
page(s): 73. [details] 

original description (of Natica consolidata Couthouy, 1838) Couthouy, J. P. (1838). Descriptions of new species of Mollusca and shells, and remarks on several Polypii, found in Massachussets Bay. <em>Boston Journal of Natural History.</em> 2(1): 53-111., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32266711
page(s): 89, pl. III, fig. 14 [details] 

original description (of Natica russa Dall, 1874) Dall, W. H. (1874). Catalogue of shells from Bering Strait and the adjacent portions of the Artic Ocean, with descriptions of three new species. <em>Proceedings of the California Academy of Sciences.</em> 5: 246-253., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16062805
page(s): 251 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Natica septentrionalis Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910
page(s): 80 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Nerita affinis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3675 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Natica affinis var. vittata Jeffreys, 1877) Jeffreys, J. G. (1877). New and peculiar Mollusca of the Eulimidae and other families of Gastropoda, as well as of the Pteropoda, procured in the Valorous expedition. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (4)19: 317-339., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26456944
page(s): 318 [details] 

original description (of Natica clausa var. depressior Middendorff, 1851) Middendorff, A. T. von. (1851). Mollusken, pp. 163-464, pls. 8-30. - <i>In</i>: Brandt, F., Erichson, W. F., Fischer, S., Grube, E., Ménétriés, E. & Middendorff, A. T. von: Reise in den äussersten Norden und Osten Sibiriens während der Jahre 1843 und 1844. Band II. Zoologie. Theil 1. Wirbellose Thiere: Annulaten. Echinodermen. Insecten. Krebse. Mollusken. Parasiten. St. Petersburg: Buchdruckerei der Kaiserlichen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 516 pp., 32 pls. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/37047707 [details] 

original description (of Natica clausa var. elatior Middendorff, 1849) Middendorff T. A. von. (1849). Beiträge zur einer Malacozoologica Rossica, II. Aufzählung und Beschreibung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehörigen Einschaler. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St-Petersbourg, sixième série, Sciences naturelles.</em> 6: 329-516, pl. 1-11., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29015189 [details] 

original description (of Natica clausa var. normalis Middendorff, 1849) Middendorff T. A. von. (1849). Beiträge zur einer Malacozoologica Rossica, II. Aufzählung und Beschreibung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehörigen Einschaler. <em>Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St-Petersbourg, sixième série, Sciences naturelles.</em> 6: 329-516, pl. 1-11., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29015189 [details] 

original description (of Natica clausa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829) Broderip, W. J. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1829). Observations on new or interesting Mollusca contained, for the most part, in the Museum of the Zoological Society. <em>Zoological Journal.</em> 4: 359-379, pl. 9. [January]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/27485275
page(s): 372 [details] 

context source (Deepsea) Sysoev A.V. (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. Gastropoda. <i>Invertebrate Zoology</i>. Vol.11. No.1: 134–155 [in English]. [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

basis of record 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. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details] 

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

additional source McLean J.H. (1996). The Prosobranchia. In: Blake, J.A., & P.H. Scott (eds.), <i>Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 2 – The Gastropoda.</i> Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 9: 1-160., available online at https://books.google.fr/books?id=MMdJAQAAIAAJ [details] 

additional source Gulbin, V. V.; Chaban, E. M. (2012). Annotated list of shell-bearing gastropods of Commander Islands. <em>Part I. The Bulletin of the Russian Far East Malacological Society</i.</em> 15-16: 5-30. [In Russian]., available online at http://rfems.dvo.ru/images/rfems/bulletin/vol_015_016/article_01.pdf [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Saito, H. (2017). Family Naticidae. Pp. 858-866, in: T. Okutani (ed.), <i>Marine Mollusks in Japan</i>, ed. 2. 2 vols. Tokai University Press. 1375 pp. [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Type locality "Habitat in Oceano septentrionali", the precise locality is not stated [details]

Unreviewed
Distribution Range: 82°N to 36°N; 130°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: North Greenland, West Greenland, East Greenland; Baffin Bay, Canada; Canada: Queen Elizabeth Islands, Baffin Island, Labrador, Newfoundland, Quebec, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, North Carolina [details]

Habitat intertidal, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
LanguageName 
English Artic moonsnailArctic moonsnail  [details]
French natice close  [details]
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) (from synonym Cryptonatica clausa (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Barcode of Life (22 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Cryptonatica salimba Dall, 1919)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (106 publications) (from synonym Natica affinis (Gmelin, 1791))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (26 publications) (from synonym Natica russa Dall, 1874)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (343 publications) (from synonym Natica clausa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications) (from synonym Cryptonatica clausa (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Cryptonatica clausa (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Dyntaxa 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cryptonatica affinis) 
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 10 proteins) 
To GenBank (13 nucleotides; 10 proteins) (from synonym Cryptonatica clausa (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard 
To Malacopics (Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791) Japan, Hokkaidô, Hidaka, Mombetsu, ex coll. J.Ph. Voorwinde) 
To Malacopics (Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791) Svalbard & Jan Mayen, Svalbard, ex coll. J. Trausel .) 
To Malacopics (Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791) United States, Alaska, Kenai Peninsula, Seldovia, ex coll. F.J.A. Slieker Jr.) 
To Malacopics (Cryptonatica affinis (Gmelin, 1791)) 
To NMNH Extant Collection (Euspira acosmita Holotype USNM 207218) (from synonym Euspira acosmita Dall, 1919)
To PESI (from synonym Natica algida A. Gould, 1848)
To PESI (from synonym Natica consolidata Couthouy, 1838)
To PESI (from synonym Cryptonatica salimba Dall, 1919)
To PESI (from synonym Euspira acosmita Dall, 1919)
To PESI (from synonym Natica russa Dall, 1874)
To PESI (from synonym Natica septentrionalis Møller, 1842)
To PESI (from synonym Nerita affinis Gmelin, 1791)
To PESI (from synonym Cryptonatica septentrionalis (Møller, 1842))
To PESI (from synonym Natica clausa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
To PESI (from synonym Cryptonatica clausa (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Natica affinis (Gmelin, 1791))
To PESI (from synonym Natica clausa var. minor R. A. Philippi, 1852)
To PESI (from synonym Natica affinis var. vittata Jeffreys, 1877)
To PESI (from synonym Natica clausa var. depressior Middendorff, 1851)
To PESI (from synonym Natica clausa var. elatior Middendorff, 1849)
To PESI (from synonym Natica clausa var. normalis Middendorff, 1849)
To The Arctic Traits Database (0 traits) (from synonym Cryptonatica clausa (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To The Arctic Traits Database (18 traits) 
To The Arctic Traits Database (8 traits) (from synonym Natica clausa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Natica clausa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Cryptonatica clausa (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829))
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 032144) 
To ITIS
Unreviewed
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