Taxon profile
species
Bostrycapulus aculeatus (Gmelin, 1791)
kingdom Animalia - animals » phylum Mollusca - mollusks » class Gastropoda - gastropods » order Littorinimorpha » family Calyptraeidae - Slipper Shells » genus Bostrycapulus
ID: 1108134
pID: 1108133
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2014-02-28 13:14:21 - User Delsing Jan
Data last updated: 2021-02-28 08:14:00
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[[t:1108134;<em>Bostrycapulus aculeatus</em>]] (Gmelin, 1791)
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1108134/"><em>Bostrycapulus aculeatus</em></a>
pID: 1108133
Taxonomic rank: 150
Author of the record: Libor Prudký
Created: 2014-02-28 13:14:21 - User Delsing Jan
Data last updated: 2021-02-28 08:14:00
URL: https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1108134/
Text function: [[t:1108134;<em>Bostrycapulus aculeatus</em>]]
[[t:1108134;<em>Bostrycapulus aculeatus</em>]] (Gmelin, 1791)
Reference: <a href="https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1108134/"><em>Bostrycapulus aculeatus</em></a>
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Taxon in country check-lists*
North America: United States of America (Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas), South America: Caribbean, French Guiana
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Author: Jan Delsing
Text ID: 112342
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Bostrycapulus aculeatus (Gmelin, 1791) Spiny Slippersnail
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, Texas; Brazil; Bermuda. Size: 12 to 25 mm Description: Color white with brown maculations or rays, sometimes tan throughout; shell cap shaped; sculpture rough with rows of irregular, nodular ribs with spines toward the periphery; muscle scar impressed, lunar shaped, found at right interior section of inner portion of shell; beak or apex small, adpressed, not excavated; deck extended almost to middle portion of aperture and divided by carina; aperture long and ovate to subquadrate.
Habitat: Found on shelly bottoms at depths from 0 to 80 m (262 ft). Remarks: B. aculeatus is more coiled than other crepidulid species. No planktonic development. Least common crepidulid in Texas. See Ode and Speers (1969d); Hoagland (1977); Ode (1983a); Collin (2003). Synonym: Crepidula aculeata (Gmelin, 1791).
Distribution: North Carolina to Florida, Texas; Brazil; Bermuda. Size: 12 to 25 mm Description: Color white with brown maculations or rays, sometimes tan throughout; shell cap shaped; sculpture rough with rows of irregular, nodular ribs with spines toward the periphery; muscle scar impressed, lunar shaped, found at right interior section of inner portion of shell; beak or apex small, adpressed, not excavated; deck extended almost to middle portion of aperture and divided by carina; aperture long and ovate to subquadrate.
Habitat: Found on shelly bottoms at depths from 0 to 80 m (262 ft). Remarks: B. aculeatus is more coiled than other crepidulid species. No planktonic development. Least common crepidulid in Texas. See Ode and Speers (1969d); Hoagland (1977); Ode (1983a); Collin (2003). Synonym: Crepidula aculeata (Gmelin, 1791).
Tunnell, J.W. , Andrews, J. , Barrera, N.C. & Moretzsohn, F., 2010. Encyclopedia of Texas seashells.
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Links and literature
Galli C.: WMSDB - Wolrdwide Mollusc Species Data Base July 10, 2013 [http://www.bagniliggia.it/WMSD/WMSDhome....] [as Bostrycapulus aculeatus (Gmelin, 1791)]Data retrieved on: 21 July 2015