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Cranopsis (gastropod)
''Cranopsis'' was previously a genus of sea snails, marine (ocean), marine gastropod mollusks in the family (biology), family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets. ''Cranopsis'' is since 2019 considered a synonym of ''Puncturella''. Description The fissure lies about the middle of the anterior side. An internal vaulted chamber is found over the foramen, resembling that of ''Puncturella'' Species brought into synonymy * ''Cranopsis aethiopica'' (Martens, 1902): synonym of ''Rimulanax aethiopica'' (Martens, 1902) * ''Cranopsis agger'' (Robert Boog Watson, Watson, 1883) : synonym of ''Puncturella agger'' R. B. Watson, 1883 * ''Cranopsis alaris'' Simone & Cunha, 2014: synonym of ''Puncturella alaris'' (Simone & C. Cunha, 2014) (original combination) * ''Cranopsis antillana'' (Isabel Pérez Farfante, Pérez Farfante, 1947): synonym of ''Puncturella antillana'' Pérez Farfante, 1947 * ''Cranopsis apostrema'' Simone & Cunha, 2014: synonym of ''Puncturella apostrema'' (Simone & C. Cunh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Adams (zoologist)
Arthur Adams (1820 in Gosport, Hampshire – 1878) was an English physician and naturalist. Adams was assistant surgeon Royal Navy on board HMS ''Samarang'' during the survey of the islands of the Eastern Archipelago, from 1843 to 1846. He edited the ''Zoology of the voyage of H.M.S. Samarang'' (1850). Adam White collaborated with him in the descriptions of the Crustacea from the voyage. In 1857, during the Second China War whilst serving as Surgeon on HMS ''Actaeon'', he was present at the storming of Canton and awarded the China War Medal. He retired as Staff Surgeon aboard flagship HMS ''Royal Adelaide'' at Plymouth in 1870. He was a prolific malacologist who described "hundreds of new species, most of them unillustrated and insufficiently diagnosed". He partly worked together with his brother Henry Adams (1813–1877) and together they wrote The genera of recent mollusca: arranged according to their organization' (three volumes, 1858). He also wrote ''Travels of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puncturella Billsae
''Puncturella billsae'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella billsae Pérez Farfante, 1947. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=761644 on 2020-09-24 Description The size of the shell reaches 3.5 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico, in the Caribbean Sea (off Cuba) and in the Atlantic Ocean off Brazil Brazil ( pt, Brasil; ), officially the Federative Republic of Brazil (Portuguese: ), is the largest country in both South America and Latin America. At and with over 217 million people, Brazil is the world's fifth-largest country by area ... References * Turgeon, D.; Quinn, J.F.; Bogan, A.E.; Coan, E.V.; Hochberg, F.G.; Lyons, W.G.; Mikkelsen, P.M.; Neves, R.J.; Roper, C.F.E.; Rosenberg, G.; Roth, B.; Scheltema, A.; Thompson, F.G.; Vecchione, M.; Will ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puncturella Exquisita
''Puncturella exquisita'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.MolluscaBase eds. (2022). MolluscaBase. Puncturella exquisita (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1445642 on 2022-04-14 Description The size of the shell varies between 5 mm and 12 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering or ~19.8% of the water on Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is bounded by t ...; also off the Philippines. References * Taylor, J.D. (1973). ''Provisional list of the mollusca of Aldabra Atoll'' * Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2020). The Fissurellidae from the Philippines with the description of 26 new species. Visaya. suppl. 13: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puncturella Expansa
''Puncturella expansa'', common name the broad puncturella, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella expansa (Dall, 1896). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=575133 on 2020-09-24 Description The size of the shell varies between 25 mm and 40 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean from Baja California, Mexico to Panama; off the Galápagos Islands The Galápagos Islands (Spanish: , , ) are an archipelago of volcanic islands. They are distributed on each side of the equator in the Pacific Ocean, surrounding the centre of the Western Hemisphere, and are part of the Republic of Ecuador ... References * Keen M. (1971) ''Sea shells of tropical West America. Marine mollusks from Baja California to Perú'', ed. 2. Stanford University Press. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puncturella Erecta
''Puncturella erecta'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella erecta Dall, 1889. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=766623 on 2020-09-24 Description The size of the shell reaches 15 mm. Distribution This species occurs in the Gulf of Mexico The Gulf of Mexico ( es, Golfo de México) is an ocean basin and a marginal sea of the Atlantic Ocean, largely surrounded by the North American continent. It is bounded on the northeast, north and northwest by the Gulf Coast of the United .... References * Dall, W. H. 1927. ''Diagnoses of undescribed new species of mollusks in the collection of the United States National Museum''. Proceedings of the United States National Museum 70(2668): 1–11 * Dall, W. H. 1927. ''Small shells from dredgings off the southeast coast of the United St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Healey Dall
William Healey Dall (August 21, 1845 – March 27, 1927) was an American naturalist, a prominent malacologist, and one of the earliest scientific explorers of interior Alaska. He described many mollusks of the Pacific Northwest of America, and was for many years America's preeminent authority on living and fossil mollusks. Dall also made substantial contributions to ornithology, zoology, physical and cultural anthropology, oceanography and paleontology. In addition he carried out meteorological observations in Alaska for the Smithsonian Institution. Biography Early life Dall was born in Boston, Massachusetts. His father Charles Henry Appleton Dall, (1816–86), a Unitarian minister, moved in 1855 to India as a missionary. His family however stayed in Massachusetts, where Dall's mother Caroline Wells Healey was a teacher, transcendentalist, reformer, and pioneer feminist. In 1862, Dall's father, on one of his few brief visits home, brought his son in contact with some natu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puncturella Enigmatica
''Puncturella'' is a genus of minute deepwater keyhole limpets, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.Gofas, S. (2011). Puncturella. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138015 on 2011-01-25 Species Species in this genus include: * '' Puncturella abyssicola'' Verrill, 1885 * '' Puncturella agger'' R. B. Watson, 1883 * '' Puncturella alaris'' (Simone & C. Cunha, 2014) * '' Puncturella altaparva'' Poppe & Tagaro, 2020 * '' Puncturella analoga'' E. von Martens, 1902 * '' Puncturella antillana'' Pérez Farfante, 1947 * '' Puncturella apostrema'' (Simone & C. Cunha, 2014) * '' Puncturella asturiana'' (P. Fischer, 1882) * ''Puncturella billsae'' Pérez Farfante, 1947 * '' Puncturella brychia'' Watson, 1883 * '' Puncturella canopa'' (Simone & C. Cunha, 2014) * '' Puncturella capensis'' Thiele, 1919 * † Puncturella capuliformis (Pecchiol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puncturella Decorata
''Puncturella decorata'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella decorata Cowan & McLean, 1968. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=588512 on 2020-09-24McLean J.H. & Geiger D.L. (1998). New genera and species having the Fissurisepta shell form, with a generic-level phylogenetic analysis (Gastropoda: Fissurellidae). Contributions in Science, Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County 475: 1-32 Distribution This species occurs in the Pacific Ocean off British Columbia British Columbia (commonly abbreviated as BC) is the westernmost province of Canada, situated between the Pacific Ocean and the Rocky Mountains. It has a diverse geography, with rugged landscapes that include rocky coastlines, sandy beaches, ..., Canada. References External links To Encyclopedia of L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puncturella Cumingii
''Puncturella cumingii'' is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae Fissurellidae, common name the keyhole limpets and slit limpets, is a taxonomic family of limpet-like sea snails, marine gastropod molluscs in the clade Vetigastropoda.Rosenberg, G. (2012). Fissurellidae. Accessed through: World Register of Mari ..., the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella cumingii (A. Adams, 1853). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1445477 on 2020-09-24Bosch D.T., Dance S.P., Moolenbeek R.G. & Oliver P.G. (1995) Seashells of eastern Arabia. Dubai: Motivate Publishing. 296 pp. References * Poppe G.T., Tagaro S.P. & Stahlschmidt P. (2015). ''New shelled molluscan species from the central Philippines'' I. Visaya. 4(3): 15–59. * Poppe G.T. & Tagaro S.P. (2020). ''The Fissurellidae from the Philippines with the description of 26 n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puncturella Cucullata
''Puncturella cucullata'', common name the hooded keyhole limpet, is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.MolluscaBase eds. (2020). MolluscaBase. Puncturella cucullata (Gould, 1846). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=761645 on 2020-09-24 Description The size of the shell varies between 13 mm and 28 mm. Distribution This marine species occurs from Alaska to Baja California Baja California (; 'Lower California'), officially the Free and Sovereign State of Baja California ( es, Estado Libre y Soberano de Baja California), is a state in Mexico. It is the northernmost and westernmost of the 32 federal entities of Mex ..., Mexico References * Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 * McLean ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Augustus Addison Gould
Augustus Addison Gould (April 23, 1805 – September 15, 1866) was an American conchologist and malacologist. Biography Born in New Ipswich, New Hampshire, he was the son of music teacher Nathaniel Duren Gould (1781–1864) who was also noted for his penmanship. Physician He graduated from Harvard College in 1825, and took his degree of doctor of medicine in 1830. "Establishing himself in Boston, he devoted himself to the practice of medicine, and finally rose to high professional rank and social position. He became president of the Massachusetts Medical Society, and was employed in editing the vital statistics of the state." In 1848, he was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society. In 1855 he delivered the annual address at the Massachusetts Medical Society, entitled “Search Out the Secrets of Nature.” He was its president from 1864 until his death. In 1856, he was appointed visiting physician to the Massachusetts General Hospital. Naturalist "As a con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Puncturella Columbaris
''Puncturella'' is a genus of minute deepwater keyhole limpets, marine gastropod mollusks or micromollusks in the family Fissurellidae, the keyhole limpets and slit limpets.Gofas, S. (2011). Puncturella. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138015 on 2011-01-25 Species Species in this genus include: * '' Puncturella abyssicola'' Verrill, 1885 * '' Puncturella agger'' R. B. Watson, 1883 * '' Puncturella alaris'' (Simone & C. Cunha, 2014) * '' Puncturella altaparva'' Poppe & Tagaro, 2020 * '' Puncturella analoga'' E. von Martens, 1902 * '' Puncturella antillana'' Pérez Farfante, 1947 * '' Puncturella apostrema'' (Simone & C. Cunha, 2014) * '' Puncturella asturiana'' (P. Fischer, 1882) * ''Puncturella billsae'' Pérez Farfante, 1947 * '' Puncturella brychia'' Watson, 1883 * '' Puncturella canopa'' (Simone & C. Cunha, 2014) * '' Puncturella capensis'' Thiele, 1919 * † Puncturella capuliformis (Pecchiol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
