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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Gastropoda: : Littorinoidea: Littorinidae

Lacuna crassior (Montagu, 1803)


Range: 68.7°N to 50°N; 53°W to 0°W
Depth: 2 to 176 m
Maximum Reported Size: 14  mm

Synonymy

Littorina crassior (Montagu, 1803) 
Turbo crassior Montagu, 1803
Medoria crassior (Montagu, 1803) 
Phasianella crassior (Montagu, 1803) 
Turbo pallidus Donovan, 1804
Lacuna glacialis Möller, 1842
Lacuna elatior Middendorff, 1849
Lacuna globosior Middendorff, 1849
Lacuna latecanaliculata Middendorff, 1849
Lacuna normalis Middendorff, 1849
Lacuna normalis Middendorff, 1851
Medoria danmoniensis Gray, 1852
Medoria walkeri Gray, 1852

Details


Turbo crassior Montagu, 1803, p. 309-310, [Walk. Min. Shells f. 24; Montagu 1808 pl. 20, fig. 1]
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: Coast of Sandwich; shore of Biddeford Bay
Range: 68.7°N to 50°N; 53°W to 0°W
Depth: 2 to 176 m
Maximum Reported Size: 12 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland
References: Posselt & Jensen (1899) NWM; Fretter & Graham (1980) E
Combining Genera:  Littorina Medoria Phasianella

Medoria danmoniensis Gray, 1852, 
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Leach
References: Dautzenberg & Fischer (1912) s

Lacuna crassior f. elatior Middendorff, 1849b, p. 599, pl. 8, figs. 31-32
[Not available]
Type Locality: Not stated
Comments: Infrasubspecific.

Lacuna glacialis Möller, 1842a, p. 82
[Synonym]
Type Locality: [Godthaab, West] Greenland
Range: 64°N ; 52°W
Depth: 18 to 36 m
Maximum Reported Size: 14 mm
Distribution: Greenland: West Greenland
References: Möller (1842a) M; Fretter & Graham (1980) s; Schiötte & Warén (1992) DdNSEW

Lacuna crassior f. globosior Middendorff, 1849b, p. 599, pl. 8, figs. 35-36
[Not available]
Type Locality: Not stated
Comments: Infrasubspecific.

Lacuna crassior var. late-canaliculata Middendorff, 1849b, p. 599, pl. 8, figs. 43-44
[Not available]
Type Locality: Not stated
Comments: Infrasubspecific.

Lacuna crassior f. normalis Middendorff, 1849b, p. 381, pl. 8, figs. 29-30
[Not available]
Type Locality: Eismeer an den Küsten des Russischen Lapplandes
Comments: Infrasubspecific.

Lacuna glacialis f. normalis Middendorff, 1851, p. 197, pl. 10, fig. 10-11
[Not available]
Type Locality: Südküsten des Ochotskischen Meeres und die Schantarischen Inseln
Maximum Reported Size: 13 mm
References: Middendorff (1851) M
Comments: Infrasubspecific.

Turbo pallidus Donovan, 1804a,  pl. 178, fig. 4
[Synonym]
Type Locality: Western coast [of Great Britain]
Comments: Non Montagu, 1803.

Medoria walkeri Gray, 1852, 
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Leach
References: Dautzenberg & Fischer (1912) s


Partial List of References

Donovan, E. 1804. The Natural History of British Shells, including figures and descriptions of all the species hitherto discovered in Great Britain, systemically arranged in the Linnean manner, with scientific and general observations on each Natural History of British Shells 5 [vii], pls. 163-180. Author and F. and C. Rivington: London.
Middendorff, A. T. von. 1849. Beiträge zu einer Malacozoologia Rossica. II. Aufzählung und Beschreibung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehörigen einschaler Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de Saint-Pétersbourg, Sciences Naturelles (6)6 329-516, pls. 1-11.
Middendorff, A. T. von. 1851. Mollusken Reise in den Aussersten Norden und Osten Sibiriens 2(1) 163-464, pl. 8-30 [Stated date: 30 Sep 1851.]
Montagu, G. 1803. Testacea Britannica  [iii] + xxxix + 606 + [4]. J. S. Hollis: Romsey. [True date: post Sept 1.]
Möller, H. P. C. 1842. Index molluscorum Groenlandiae Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift 4 76-97.

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