Steromphala tumida
Authors/Creators
- 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
Steromphala tumida (Montagu, 1803) (Fig. 4J 1-J 3)
Trochus tumidus Montagu, 1803: 280, pl. 10, fig. 4.
Trochus (Gibbula) tumidus – Harmer 1923: 733 (partim, pl. 59, fig. 11, not pl. 59, fig. 10) (Upper Pleistocene-Recent records only).
Gibbula tumida – Pouwer & Wesselingh 2012: 152, fig. 4 (non Gibbula tumida Símonarson & Eiríksson in Eiríksson & Símonarson, 2021).
MATERIAL AND DIMENSIONS. — Height 4.8 mm. — RGM.1310832 (1), leg. SM; n.n. (8), leg. SM.
SPECIES CHARACTERISATION. — This small Steromphala species is characterised by rounded shoulders, fine and slightly irregular spiral ribbing, very strong prosocline growth-lines, a subquadrate aperture with a slight chink on the columella.
DISTRIBUTION. — Lower Pleistocene: Atlantic, Selsoif, France (this paper). — Late Pleistocene: Channel region, Selsey, west coast of Scotland, Largo bay, Belfast, Livorno (Italy) and Christiana Fjord and Trondhjem in Norway (Harmer 1923). — Recent: Iceland and northern Norway to Gibraltar (Pouwer & Wesselingh 2012; Harmer 1923).
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Scientific name authorship
- Montagu
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Mollusca
- Order
- Trochida
- Family
- Trochidae
- Genus
- Steromphala
- Species
- tumida
- Taxon rank
- species
- Taxonomic concept label
- Steromphala tumida (Montagu, 1803) sec. Bouchard, Wesselingh, Pouwer & Landau, 2025
References
- MONTAGU G. 1803. - Testacea Britannica or Natural History of British Shells, Marine, Land, and Fresh-Water, Including the most Minute: Systematically Arranged and Embellished with Figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 p.; Vol. 2, p. 293-606, pl. 1 - 16.
- WESSELINGH F., RIJKEN R., VAN NIEULANDE F., JANSE A. & POUWER R. 2012. - De fossiele schelpen van de Nederlandse kust II. De Cerithium-achtigen (deel 2). Spirula 385: 37-47
- EIRIKSSON J. & SIMONARSON L. A. (eds) 2021. - Pacific-Atlantic Mollusc Migration. Vol. 52. Cham, Springer International Publishing: 525-565 (Topics in Geobiology). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-59663-7
- POUWER R. & WESSELINGH F. P. 2012. - De fossiele schelpen van de Nederlandse kust, 2 (3). Trochidae, Solariellidae en Calliostomatidae. Spirula 389: 151-164.