North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Bursatella Blainville, 1817

Bursatella leachii

AphiaID

137655 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137655)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Dolabriferinae Pilsbry, 1895

Original name

Bursatella Blainville, 1817

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Species Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817
Species Bursatella leachi [sic] accepted as Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling)
Species Bursatella savigniana Audouin, 1826 accepted as Bursatella leachii Blainville, 1817

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1817). Bursatella, p. 138, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 5, supplément. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23001647
page(s): 138 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Bursatella Blainville, 1817. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137655 on 2026-06-15

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Bursatella Blainville, 1817. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=137655 on 2026-06-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-04-04 07:14:05Z

changed

Vandepitte, Leen

2011-04-12 18:06:51Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2013-09-10 08:54:59Z

changed

Caballer, Manuel

2020-01-26 23:51:41Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2026-06-15 17:00:18Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1817). Bursatella, p. 138, in: Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles (F. Cuvier, ed.), vol. 5, supplément. Levrault, Strasbourg & Le Normant, Paris. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/23001647
page(s): 138 [details]

redescription Bazzicalupo, E., Crocetta, F., Gosliner, T. M., Berteaux-Lecellier, V., Camacho-García, Y. E., Chandran, B. K. S. & Valdés, Á. (2020). Molecular and morphological systematics of Bursatella leachii de Blainville, 1817 and Stylocheilus striatus Quoy & Gaimard, 1832 reveal cryptic diversity in pantropically distributed taxa (Mollusca : Gastropoda : Heterobranchia). Invertebrate Systematics. 34: 535-568., available online at https://doi.org/10.1071/is19056 [details]