Description
Family Trochidae
Operculum thin and horny , with numerous spiral lines .
Habitat
Typically found in the intertidal zone at the water's edge at a mean distance from sea level of -39 meters (-128 feet).[1]
Taxonomy
- Domain:
Eukaryota
(
)
- Whittaker & Margulis,1978
- eukaryotes
- Kingdom:
Animalia
()
- Linnaeus, 1758
- animals
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
()
- (Hatschek, 1888) Cavalier-Smith, 1983
- Branch:
Protostomia
()
- Grobben, 1908
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
()
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
()
- Phylum:
Mollusca
()
- (Linnaeus, 1758) Cuvier, 1795
- Molluscs
- Class:
Gastropoda
()
- Cuvier, 1795
- Snails and Slugs
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
()
- Ponder & Lindberg, 1996
- Superorder:
Vetigastropoda
()
- Salvini-Plawen, 1980
- Order:
Archeogastropoda
()
- Superfamily:
Trochoidea
()
- C.s. Rafinesque, 1815
- Family:
Trochidae
()
- C.s. Rafinesque, 1815
- Top Snails
- Subfamily:
Gibbulinae
()
- Genus:
Gibbula
()
- Risso, 1826
- Specific name:
tumida
- (Montagu, 1803)
- Scientific name: - Gibbula tumida (Montagu, 1803)
- Specific name:
tumida
- (Montagu, 1803)
- Genus:
Gibbula
(
- Subfamily:
Gibbulinae
(
- Family:
Trochidae
(
- Superfamily:
Trochoidea
(
- Order:
Archeogastropoda
(
- Superorder:
Vetigastropoda
(
- Subclass:
Orthogastropoda
(
- Class:
Gastropoda
(
- Phylum:
Mollusca
(
- Superphylum:
Eutrochozoa
(
- Infrakingdom:
Lophotrochozoa
(
- Branch:
Protostomia
(
- Subkingdom:
Bilateria
(
- Kingdom:
Animalia
(
Notes
Name Status: Accepted Name . Latest taxonomic scrutiny: 24-Jun-1996
Similar Species
Members of the genus Gibbula
ZipcodeZoo has pages for 120 species and subspecies in this genus. Here are just 100 of them:
G. acderis · G. adansoni · G. adansonii · G. adriatica · G. affinis · G. agathensis · G. ahena · G. albida · G. ardens · G. ardens von · G. aurantia · G. barbara · G. beckeri · G. benzi · G. biangulata · G. biporcata · G. callichrous · G. candei · G. capensis · G. cicer · G. cicer thalia(bartsch) · G. cineraria (Grey Top Shell) · G. cineraria strigosa · G. cinerea · G. cineria · G. cingulata · G. concina · G. concinna · G. corallinoides · G. coxi · G. danieli · G. declivis · G. delgadensis · G. depressa · G. detaillei · G. ditropis · G. divaricata · G. drepanensis · G. eikoae · G. elatior · G. elegans · G. fanulum · G. fermonii · G. filosa · G. fulgens · G. fulminata · G. gelriana · G. gorgonarum · G. guttadauri · G. guttadauroi · G. gutthdauri · G. harrisi · G. harrisii · G. hisseyana · G. houarti · G. irritans · G. japonica · G. kahtanensis · G. kotschyi · G. lehmanni · G. leucophaea · G. leucophaeus · G. loculosa · G. magnus · G. magus (Magical Gibbula) · G. margaritana · G. margaritoides · G. marmorea · G. monodonta · G. multicolor · G. mystica · G. nassaviensis · G. nehardi · G. nitida · G. nivosa · G. obconica nehalenniae · G. obliquata · G. octosulcata · G. oppressa · G. parcipicta · G. pennanti · G. phasianellus · G. philberti · G. picta · G. picturata · G. poeppigii · G. prasina · G. proxima · G. pseudangulata · G. pulcherrima · G. racketti · G. rarilineata · G. redimita · G. reevei · G. reevi · G. richardi · G. rosea · G. spratti · G. spurca · G. stoliczkana
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Further Reading
- Annales de la Société malacologique de Belgique. [S.l.: s.n.], 1863/65-1880; FRE url p. 94.
- Annals and magazine of natural history: including zoology, botany and geology London. url p. 270.
- Arkiv för zoologi / utgivet af K. Svenska vetenskaps-akademien. Stockholm: P.A. Norstedt & soner, 1903-1974. SWE url p. 5.
- Biology of the seas of the U.S.S.R. Translated by S. Botcharskaya. New York, Interscience Publishers[1963] ENG url p. 142, p. 38, p. 914.
- Bulletin de la Société linnéenne de Normandie. Lons-le-Saunier [etc.]The Society. FRE url p. 49.
- Bulletins de l'Acad©mie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. Bruxelles. FRE url p. 571.
- Carotenoids, by Paul Karrer and Ernst Jucker. Translated and rev. by Ernest A. Braude. New York, Elsevier Pub. Co., 1950. ENG url p. 85.
- Carotenoids, their comparative biochemistry. New York, Chemical Pub. Co., 1954. ENG url p. 182, p. 332.
- Det Kongelige Norske videnskabers selskabs skrifter. Trondhjem: Aktietrykkeriet, -1969. DAN url p. 11, p. 121, p. 141, p. 147, p. 174, p. 181, p. 319.
- Fauna, flora & geology of the Clyde area, ed. by G.F. Scott Elliot, Malcolm Laurie and J. Barclay Murdoch. Glasgow, Pub. by the local committee for the meeting of the British Association, 1901. ENG url p. 198.
- Hydrographical and biological investigations in Norwegian fiords. By O. Nordgaard. The protist plankton and the diatoms in bottom samples. By E. Jørgensen. With 21 plates and 10 figures in the text. Bergen, J. Grieg, 1905. ENG url p. 179.
- Jahrbücher des Nassauischen Vereins für Naturkunde. Wiesbaden: J.F. Bergmann, GER url p. 81.
- Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. Cambridge [etc.]Cambridge University Press [etc.] ENG url p. 269.
- La Feuille des jeunes naturalistes. Paris: A. Dollfus, 1870-1914. FRE url p. 39, p. 56.
- Poppe, G.T. & Goto, Y., 1991, European Seashells, vol.I, pg.21.
- Résultats des campagnes scientifiques accomplies sur son yacht par Albert Ier, prince souverain de Monaco [Monaco]Impr. de Monaco, 1889-19 FRE url p. 267, p. 268, p. 269, p. 537.
Notes
Contributors
- Bisby, F.A., Y.R. Roskov, M.A. Ruggiero, T.M. Orrell, L.E. Paglinawan, P.W. Brewer, N. Bailly, J. van Hertum, eds (2007). Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life: 2007 Annual Checklist. Species 2000: Reading, U.K.
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility. Accessed November 18, 2007. http://www.gbif.org Mediated distribution data from 18 providers.
Data Sources
Accessed through GBIF Data Portal November 18, 2007:
- Academy of Natural Sciences, Academy of Natural Sciences Malacology Database
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, A comparison of benthic biodiversity in the North Sea, English Channel and Celtic Seas
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Histroical benthic dredge samples from the southern baltic and the North Sea
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, N3 data of Kiel bay
- Institute of Marine and Coastal Sciences, Rutgers University, Taxonomic Information Sytem for the Belgian coastal area
- The Danish Biodiversity Information Facility, Marine Benthic Fauna List, Læsø, Denmark
- The Swedish Museum of Natural History
- , Invertebrates
- UK National Biodiversity Network, Conchological Society of Great Britain & Ireland - Mollusc
- data for Great Britain and Ireland
- UK National Biodiversity Network, Marine Biological Association - Marine survey data
- held by MarLIN.
Identifiers
- Biodiversity Heritage Library NamebankID: 499919
- Catalogue of Life Accepted Name Code: ITS-69985
- Global Biodiversity Information Facility Taxonkey: 13719407
- Integrated Taxonomic Information System (ITIS) Taxonomic Serial Number (TSN): 69985
- Zipcode Zoo Species Identifier: 506178
Footnotes
- Standard Deviation = 642.910 based on 729 observations. Terrestrial altitude and ocean depth information for each observation from British Oceanographic Data Centre. [back]
