WoRMS taxon details
Limacina retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823)
140227 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140227)
accepted
Species
Fusus retroversus J. Fleming, 1823 · unaccepted (superseded combination; declared...)
superseded combination; declared nomen protectum by Janssen (2012)
Heterofusus alexandri A. E. Verrill, 1872 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Heterofusus retroversus (J. Fleming, 1823) · unaccepted
Limacina balea Møller, 1841 · unaccepted (synonym)
Limacina retroversa f. balea Møller, 1841 · unaccepted
Peracle flemingii Jeffreys, 1847 · unaccepted (synonym)
Scaea stenogyra R. A. Philippi, 1844 · unaccepted
Spiratella retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823) · unaccepted
Spirialis australis Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840 · unaccepted (synonym)
Spirialis balea (Møller, 1841) · unaccepted
Spirialis gouldii W. Stimpson, 1851 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Spirialis jeffreysii Forbes & Hanley, 1849 · unaccepted (synonym)
Spirialis macandrewi Forbes & Hanley, 1849 · unaccepted (synonym)
Spirialis retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823) · unaccepted
Trochus lunaris Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (declared nomen oblitum by Janssen...)
declared nomen oblitum by Janssen (2012)
- Subspecies Limacina retroversa australis (Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840)
- Subspecies Limacina retroversa retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823)
- Forma Limacina retroversa f. balea Møller, 1841 accepted as Limacina retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823)
- Forma Limacina retroversa f. retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823) accepted as Limacina retroversa retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Fusus retroversus J. Fleming, 1823) Fleming, J. (1823). On a reversed species of <i>Fusus</i> (<i>Fusus retroversus</i>). <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh).</em> 4(3): 498-500, pl. 15., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46990069 [details]
Distribution Arctic seas to Cape Cod, Massachusetts
Distribution Arctic seas to Cape Cod, Massachusetts [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limacina retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140227 on 2025-03-22
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Fusus retroversus J. Fleming, 1823) Fleming, J. (1823). On a reversed species of <i>Fusus</i> (<i>Fusus retroversus</i>). <em>Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh).</em> 4(3): 498-500, pl. 15., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46990069 [details]
original description (of Scaea stenogyra R. A. Philippi, 1844) Philippi, R. A. (1844). <i>Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2</i>. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062
page(s): 164, pl 25 fig. 20 [details]
original description (of Trochus lunaris 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 [details]
original description (of Peracle flemingii Jeffreys, 1847) Jeffreys, J. G. (1847). Additional notices on British shells. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 20: 16-19., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2278648
page(s): 16 [details]
original description (of Spirialis australis Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840) Eydoux J.F.T. & Souleyet L.F.A. (1840). Description sommaire de plusieurs Ptéropodes nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus, destinés à être publiés dans le voyage de la "Bonite". <em>Revue Zoologique de la Société Cuvierienne, Paris.</em> (1840): 235-239., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13714239 [details]
original description (of Spirialis gouldii W. Stimpson, 1851) Stimpson, W. (1851). Descriptions of two new species of shells from Massachusetts Bay, namely <i>Spirialis gouldii</i>, and <i>Thracia couthouyi</i>, and a Holothuria, under the name of <i>Anaperus unisemita</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4:7-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870738#page/15/mode/1up
page(s): p. 8. [details]
original description (of Spirialis jeffreysii Forbes & Hanley, 1849) Forbes, E.; Hanley, S. C. T. (1848-1853). <i>A history of British Mollusca and their shells</i>. London, van Voorst. 4 vols., 2064 pp., 203 pls. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16341
page(s): 386 [details]
original description (of Spirialis macandrewi Forbes & Hanley, 1849) Forbes, E.; Hanley, S. C. T. (1848-1853). <i>A history of British Mollusca and their shells</i>. London, van Voorst. 4 vols., 2064 pp., 203 pls. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16341
page(s): 386 [details]
original description (of Scaea stenogyra R. A. Philippi, 1844) Philippi, R. A. (1844). <i>Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2</i>. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062
page(s): 164, pl 25 fig. 20 [details]
original description (of Trochus lunaris 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 [details]
original description (of Peracle flemingii Jeffreys, 1847) Jeffreys, J. G. (1847). Additional notices on British shells. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> 20: 16-19., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2278648
page(s): 16 [details]
original description (of Spirialis australis Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840) Eydoux J.F.T. & Souleyet L.F.A. (1840). Description sommaire de plusieurs Ptéropodes nouveaux ou imparfaitement connus, destinés à être publiés dans le voyage de la "Bonite". <em>Revue Zoologique de la Société Cuvierienne, Paris.</em> (1840): 235-239., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13714239 [details]
original description (of Spirialis gouldii W. Stimpson, 1851) Stimpson, W. (1851). Descriptions of two new species of shells from Massachusetts Bay, namely <i>Spirialis gouldii</i>, and <i>Thracia couthouyi</i>, and a Holothuria, under the name of <i>Anaperus unisemita</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4:7-9., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870738#page/15/mode/1up
page(s): p. 8. [details]
original description (of Spirialis jeffreysii Forbes & Hanley, 1849) Forbes, E.; Hanley, S. C. T. (1848-1853). <i>A history of British Mollusca and their shells</i>. London, van Voorst. 4 vols., 2064 pp., 203 pls. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16341
page(s): 386 [details]
original description (of Spirialis macandrewi Forbes & Hanley, 1849) Forbes, E.; Hanley, S. C. T. (1848-1853). <i>A history of British Mollusca and their shells</i>. London, van Voorst. 4 vols., 2064 pp., 203 pls. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/16341
page(s): 386 [details]
Other
context source (Deepsea)
Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]
additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
additional source Janssen, A.W. (2012). Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. <em>Bollettino Malacologico.</em> 48 (suplemento 9): 1-105. [details] Available for editors
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additional source Morton, J. E. (1954). The biology of <i>Limacina retroversa</i>. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 33(2): 297-312., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s002531540000833x [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
additional source Janssen, A.W. (2012). Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. <em>Bollettino Malacologico.</em> 48 (suplemento 9): 1-105. [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Morton, J. E. (1954). The biology of <i>Limacina retroversa</i>. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 33(2): 297-312., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/s002531540000833x [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Dimensions maximum size up to 5 or 6 mm in length [details]Distribution Arctic seas to Cape Cod, Massachusetts [details]
Habitat upper epipelagic and glacial [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | spitse contravleugelslak | [details] |
| English | retrovert pteropod | [details] |
| German | Umgekehrter FlossenfüßerSpitze FlügelschneckeSchiefer Schmetterling | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (14 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (108 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Limacina balea Møller, 1841)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Spiratella retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Limacina retroversa)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To Malacopics (Limacina retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823) Atlantic Ocean, off W Scotland, Rockall Trou...
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Scaea stenogyra R. A. Philippi, 1844)
To PESI (from synonym Heterofusus alexandri A. E. Verrill, 1872)
To PESI (from synonym Heterofusus retroversus (J. Fleming, 1823))
To PESI (from synonym Limacina balea Møller, 1841)
To PESI (from synonym Peracle flemingii Jeffreys, 1847)
To PESI (from synonym Spirialis australis Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840)
To PESI (from synonym Spirialis gouldii W. Stimpson, 1851)
To PESI (from synonym Spirialis jeffreysii Forbes & Hanley, 1849)
To PESI (from synonym Spirialis macandrewi Forbes & Hanley, 1849)
To The Arctic Traits Database (1 trait)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (108 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications) (from synonym Limacina balea Møller, 1841)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (4 publications) (from synonym Spiratella retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Limacina retroversa)
To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI)
To Malacopics (Limacina retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823) Atlantic Ocean, off W Scotland, Rockall Trou...
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Scaea stenogyra R. A. Philippi, 1844)
To PESI (from synonym Heterofusus alexandri A. E. Verrill, 1872)
To PESI (from synonym Heterofusus retroversus (J. Fleming, 1823))
To PESI (from synonym Limacina balea Møller, 1841)
To PESI (from synonym Peracle flemingii Jeffreys, 1847)
To PESI (from synonym Spirialis australis Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840)
To PESI (from synonym Spirialis gouldii W. Stimpson, 1851)
To PESI (from synonym Spirialis jeffreysii Forbes & Hanley, 1849)
To PESI (from synonym Spirialis macandrewi Forbes & Hanley, 1849)
To The Arctic Traits Database (1 trait)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
