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Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1803)

141134  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141134)

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Species
Bulla plicata T. Brown, 1827 · unaccepted (junior homonym of Bulla plicata...)  
junior homonym of Bulla plicata Deshayes, 1824
Bulla turrita Møller, 1842 · unaccepted (synonym)
Retusa obtusata [sic] · unaccepted (misspelling of obtusa (Montagu....)  
misspelling of obtusa (Montagu. 1803)

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(of Bulla obtusa Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 223 [details]   
Distribution Arctic seas to off North Carolina; Alaska  
Distribution Arctic seas to off North Carolina; Alaska [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1803). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141134 on 2024-03-28
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original description  (of Bulla obtusa Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 223 [details]   

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

original description  (of Utriculus obtusus var. semistriata Jeffreys, 1869) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 223 [details]   

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]   

basis of record Valdés A. (2019). Northeast Pacific benthic shelled sea slugs. <em>Zoosymposia.</em> 13: 242-304., available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zoosymposia.13.1.21
page(s): 279, figs 19A-C [details]   

additional 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] 

additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Berry, A. J. (1994). Foraminiferan prey in the annual life cycle of the predatory opisthobranch gastropod <i>Retusa obtusa</i> (Montagu). <em>Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science.</em> 38(6): 603-612. [details]   

additional source Ceulemans, L.; Van Dingenen, F.; Landau B. M. (2018). The lower Pliocene gastropods of Le Pigeon Blanc (Loire-Atlantique, northwest France). Part 5 – Neogastropoda (Conoidea) and Heterobranchia (<i>fine</i>). <em>Cainozoic Research.</em> 18(2): 89-176.
page(s): 122, pl. 7 fig. 9 [details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Dimensions maximum size of 3 mm in length [details]

Distribution Arctic seas to off North Carolina; Alaska [details]

Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
LanguageName 
Dutch oubliehorentjeoubliehoren  [details]
English Arctic barrel-bubble  [details]
French bulle arctique  [details]

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