Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Opisthobranchia > Order Thecosomata > Suborder Euthecosomata > Superfamily Limacinoidea > Family Limacinidae > Genus Limacina

Limacina retroversa (Fleming, 1823)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Limacina*	Bosc, 1817	accepted genus name
*Heterofusus*	Fleming, 1823	synonym
*Scaea*	Philippi, 1844	synonym
*Spiratella*	Blainville, 1817	synonym
*Spirialis*	Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840	synonym

Species group names

*Heterofusus alexandri*	Verrill, 1872	synonym
*Heterofusus retroversus*	Fleming, 1823	synonym
*Limacina balea*	Møller, 1841	synonym
*Peracle flemingii*	Forbes, 1844	synonym
*Scaea stenogyra*	Philippi, 1844	synonym
*Spirialis australis*	Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840	synonym
*Spirialis gouldii*	Stimpson, 1851	synonym
*Spirialis jeffreysii*	Forbes & Hanley, 1849	synonym
*Spirialis macandrewi*	Forbes & Hanley, 1849	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: spitse contravleugelslak sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: retrovert pteropod

Literature

original description	Fleming J. (1823). On a reversed species of Fusus (Fusus retroversus). Memoirs of the Wernerian Natural History Society (Edinburgh) 4 (2): 488-500 pl. 11
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	Spencer, H.G.; Marshall, B.A.; Maxwell, P.A.; Grant-Mackie, J.A.; Stilwell, J.D.; Willan, R.C.; Campbell, H.J.; Crampton, J.S.; Henderson, R.A.; Bradshaw, M.A.; Waterhouse, J.B.; Pojeta, J. Jr (2009). Phylum Mollusca: chitons, clams, tusk shells, snails, squids, and kin, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 161-254.
additional source	Janssen A.W. (2012) Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. Bollettino Malacologico 48 (suppl. 9): 1-105.

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Biodiversity Heritage Library (95 publications)
Barcode of Life (6 barcodes)
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Limacina retroversa (Fleming, 1823). 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:140227