Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Opisthobranchia > Order Cephalaspidea > Superfamily Philinoidea > Family Retusidae > Genus Retusa

Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1803)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Retusa*	T. Brown, 1827	accepted genus name
*Utriculus*	T. Brown, 1844	later homonym
*Coleophysis*	P. Fischer, 1883	synonym
*Cylichnina*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Retusa (Coleophysis)*	P. Pischer, 1883	synonym
*Retusa (Cylichnina)*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Retusa (Retusa)*	Brown, 1827	synonym
*Utriculus*	T. Brown, 1844	synonym

Species group names

*Bulla obtusa*	Montagu, 1803	synonym
*Bulla pertenuis*	Mighels, 1843	synonym
*Bulla turrita*	Møller, 1842	synonym
*Retusa obtusa var. turrita*	(Møller, 1842)	synonym
*Retusa pertenuis*	(Mighels, 1843)	synonym
*Utriculus obtusus*	(Montagu, 1803)	synonym
*Utriculus obtusus var. semistriata*	Jeffreys, 1869	synonym

Children

Retusa obtusa var. lajonkaireana (Basterot, 1825)

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: oubliehoren; oubliehorentje sources: Adema, J.P.H.M.; de Bruyne, R.H.; Perk, F.A. (1989). Preliminary name list of marine molluscs and shells, regularly washed ashore along the coasts of the Netherlands and Belgium [Voorlopige naamlijst van de mariene mollusken en de regelmatig langs de kust van Nederland en België aangespoelde schelpensoorten]. De Strandvlo 9(2): 49-59;Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.

English: Arctic barrel-bubble sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: bulle arctique

Literature

original description	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. and Vol. 2, 293–606 pp.
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213
additional source	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. [October 1974]
additional source	Berry A.J. (1994). Foraminiferan prey in the annual life cycle of the predatory opisthobranch gastropod Retusa obtusa (Montagu). Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science 38(6): 603-612

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Retusa obtusa (Montagu, 1803). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141134

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Environment

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Importance

IUCN:
Red List status DD 2003 This species is data deficient, there is inadequate information to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction based on its distribution and/or population status according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

This species is data deficient, there is inadequate information to make a direct, or indirect, assessment of its risk of extinction based on its distribution and/or population status according to the red list of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources.

OSPAR:
annex II, III, IV, V This species is threatened and/or declining in the Greater North Sea, the Celtic Seas, the Bay of Biscay and the Wider Atlantic according to the OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic.

This species is threatened and/or declining in the Greater North Sea, the Celtic Seas, the Bay of Biscay and the Wider Atlantic according to the OSPAR Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic.

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2004-12-21 by Serge Gofas

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