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Aclis minor

  • 1. Université de Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 263 avenue Général Leclerc 35042 Rennes (France) bouchardblanche @ gmail. com (corresponding author)
  • 2. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands) and Department of Earth Sciences, Utrecht University, Princetonlaan 8 a, 3584 CB Utrecht (The Netherlands)
  • 3. Naturalis Biodiversity Center, P. O. Box 9517, 2300 RA Leiden (The Netherlands)

Description

Aclis minor (Brown, 1827)

(Fig. 10D 1-D 3)

Turritella minor Brown, 1827: pl. 57, figs 57-58.

Aclis minor – Van Regteren Altena et al. 1955: 33, fig. 77. — Menkhorst & Wesselingh 2018: 42, figs 13, 14. — Landau & Mulder 2022: 161, figs 10a-c.

For more, see synonymy list in Landau & Mulder (2022).

MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Maximum height 1.8 mm (incomplete), width 0.6 mm. — RGM.1365077 (11), leg. AWJ; RGM.1365257 (1), leg. AWJ.

SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — Small, turriform shell with narrow apical angle. Protoconch absent in all specimens. About six convex teleoconch whorls separated by narrowly impressed suture. Three spiral cords on early whorls, a fourth one appearing above the suture on later whorls; aperture ovate.

DISTRIBUTION. — Upper Miocene: NSB, Denmark (Rasmussen 1968; Schnetler 2005), Germany (Moths 1989). — Lower Pliocene: NSB, Coralline Crag, England (Wood 1842, 1848; Harmer 1925); central Mediterranean, Italy (Chirli 2009; Brunetti & Cresti 2018). — Upper Pliocene: western Mediterranean, S Spain (Landau et al. 2006; Landau & Mulder 2022). — Lower Pleistocene: NSB, England, Ireland (Harmer 1925); Atlantic, Selsoif, NW France (this paper); central Mediterranean, Italy (Cerulli-Irelli 1914); eastern Mediterranean, Rhodes Island (Chirli & Linse 2011). — Pleistocene (indeterminate): NSB, Netherlands (Van Regteren Altena et al. 1955; Menkhorst & Wesselingh 2018). — Holocene: NSB (Strand Petersen 2004). Today this species is present in the Atlantic, from the British Isles (Guiry & Guiry 2011) to Madeira (Segers et al. 2009) and in the Mediterranean Sea from Spain (Peñas et al. 2009) to the Aegean Sea (Öztürk et al. 2014), at depths of 2-250 m, on calcareous algae, sandy, or muddy bottoms (Albanesi et al. 1981).

Notes

Published as part of Bouchard, Blanche, Wesselingh, Frank P., Pouwer, Ronald & Landau, Bernard, 2025, The Gelasian gastropod fauna of Selsoif (Manche, France), pp. 39-91 in Geodiversitas 47 (3) on page 66, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a3, http://zenodo.org/record/14823602

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Additional details

Biodiversity

Collection code
RGM
Material sample ID
RGM.1365077 , RGM.1365257
Scientific name authorship
Brown
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Mollusca
Order
Littorinimorpha
Family
Eulimidae
Genus
Aclis
Species
minor
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Aclis minor (Brown, 1827) sec. Bouchard, Wesselingh, Pouwer & Landau, 2025

References

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