Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Littorinoidea > Family Littorinidae > Subfamily Lacuninae > Genus Lacuna

Lacuna parva (da Costa, 1778)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Lacuna*	Turton, 1827	accepted genus name
*Aquilonaria*	Dall, 1886	synonym
*Medoria*	Leach in Gray, 1847	synonym

Species group names

*Cochlea parva*	da Costa, 1778	synonym
*Helix fasciata*	Adams J., 1800	synonym
*Helix lacuna*	Montagu, 1803	synonym
*Lacuna intermedia*	Locard, 1886	synonym
*Lacuna puteolina*	Locard, 1886	synonym
*Lacuna puteolus*	(Turton, 1819)	synonym
*Lacuna puteolus var. clausa*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Lacuna puteolus var. conica*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Lacuna puteolus var. expansa*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Lacuna puteolus var. lactea*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Turbo puteolus*	Turton, 1819	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: lille grubesnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: kleine scheefhoren sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: least chink shell; tiny lacuna sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

English-United States: Least Chink Shell

Literature

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	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013].
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	Reid D.G. (1989) The comparative morphology, phylogeny and evolution of the gastropod family Littorinidae. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 324: 1-110.
additional source	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.
additional source	ITIS database

Genbank

Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Lacuna parva. 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:140169