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Lacuna parva

Summary

Lacuna parva, common name the tiny lacuna, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Littorinidae, the winkles or periwinkles.[1]

Lacuna parva
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Littorinimorpha
Family: Littorinidae
Genus: Lacuna
Species:
L. parva
Binomial name
Lacuna parva
(da Costa, 1778)
Synonyms[1]
  • Cochlea parva da Costa, 1778
  • Helix fasciata J. Adams, 1800
  • Helix lacuna Montagu, 1803 ·
  • Lacuna (Epheria) fasciata (J. Adams, 1800)
  • Lacuna intermedia Locard, 1886
  • Lacuna puteolina Locard, 1886
  • Lacuna puteolus (Turton, 1819)
  • Lacuna puteolus var. clausa Jeffreys, 1865
  • Lacuna puteolus var. conica Jeffreys, 1865
  • Lacuna puteolus var. expansa Jeffreys, 1865
  • Lacuna puteolus var. lactea Jeffreys, 1865
  • Lacuna puteolus var. plicata J. T. Marshall, 1893
  • Turbo puteolus W. Turton, 1819

Distribution edit

  • Southern Cape Cod and Nantucket, Massachusetts
  • Distribution similar with L. vincta but extending further south to Spanish coasts

References edit

  1. ^ a b Lacuna parva (da Costa, 1778). Gofas, S. (2009). Lacuna parva (da Costa, 1778). In: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S.; Rosenberg, G. (2009) World Marine Mollusca database. Accessed through the World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140169 on 6 June 2010 .
  • Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls

External links edit

  • Da Costa, Mendes E. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois., i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, (1), Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson).
  • Adams, J. (1800). Descriptions of some minute British shells. Transactions of the Linnean Society of London. 5(1): 1-6
  • 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
  • Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp
  • Turton, W. (1819) A Conchological Dictionary of the British Islands. J. Booth, London, xxvii + 272 pp., 28 pls
  • effreys J.G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341
  • Marshall J.T. (1893). Additions to 'British Conchology' (Part I). Journal of Conchology. 7: 241-265
  • 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. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213
  • Ockelmann, K. W. & Nielsen, C. (1981). On the biology of the prosobranch Lacuna parva in the Øresund. Ophelia. 20(1): 1-16
  • Reid D.G. (1989) The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 324: 1-110