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Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 138963

Classification: Biota > Animalia > Mollusca > Gastropoda > Caenogastropoda > Littorinimorpha > Calyptraeoidea > Calyptraeidae > Crepidula
Status accepted
Record
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Rank Species
Parent Crepidula Lamarck, 1799
Sources  original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details]

additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

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. (look up in IMIS[details]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
Dutch gewoon muiltje  [details]
Dutch muiltje  [details]
Dutch slipper  [details]
English common Atlantic slippersnail  [details]
English slipper shell  [details]
French crépidule  [details]
German Pantoffelschnecke  [details]
Environment marine
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Host of  Mytilicola intestinalis Steuer, 1902 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Mytilicola orientalis Mori, 1935 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links BIOTIC
Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
European Network on Invasive Alien Species (NOBANIS) - Crepidula fornicata
Global invasive species database - Crepidula fornicata
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (43 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (419 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Dyntaxa
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (39851 nucleotides; 63 proteins)
To Marine Species Identification Portal
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: In the older fauna lists (e.g. De Malzine (1867), Colbeau (1868), Pelseneer (1881b), Maitland (1897) and Vonck (1933)) Crepidula fornicata is absent, contrary to nowadays. This species was introduced only in the thirties


For a discussion on the way of distribution and introduction see: Adam, W.; Leloup, E. (1934). Sur la présence du gastéropode Crepidula fornicata (Linné, 1758) sur la côte belge. [Occurrence of the gastropod Crepidula fornicata (Linné, 1758) at the Belgian coast.] Bull. Mus. royal d'Hist. Nat. Belg./Med. Kon. Natuurhist. Mus. Belg. 10(45): 1-6. [details]

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muiltje (Crepidula fornicata)
muiltje (Crepidula fornicata)
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muiltje (Crepidula fornicata)
muiltje (Crepidula fornicata)
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Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus, 1758) + eggs Nassarius reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus, 1758) + eggs Nassarius reticulatus (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus, 1758)
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Crepidula fornicata
Crepidula fornicata
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cf. Crepidula fornicata  (Linnaeus, 1758)
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muiltje Crepidula fornicata
muiltje Crepidula fornicata
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muiltje Crepidula fornicata
muiltje Crepidula fornicata
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Muiltje
Muiltje
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Crepidula fornicata
Crepidula fornicata
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Crepidula fornicata
Crepidula fornicata
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138963
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Taxa used on the Macrobel website at http://www.vliz.be/Vmdcdata/macrobel/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138963 on 2013-06-19