North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Distorsio Röding, 1798

AphiaID

138329 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138329)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Personidae J. E. Gray, 1854

Original name

Distorsio Röding, 1798

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Species Distorsio perdistorta Fulton, 1938
Species Distorsio muricina Röding, 1798 accepted as Gutturnium muricinum (Röding, 1798) (original combination)
Species Distorsio plicata Röding, 1798 accepted as Nassarius arcularia plicatus (Röding, 1798) (original combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 133 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Distorsio Röding, 1798. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138329 on 2026-07-19

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Distorsio Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138329 on 2026-07-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-03-20 15:28:41Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-05-12 14:20:04Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-12-31 04:05:27Z

checked

Rosenberg, Gary

2017-08-12 03:38:47Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2024-11-01 09:38:22Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 133 [details]

additional source Lewis, H,. (1972). Notes on the genus Distorsio (Cymatiidae) with descriptions of new species. The Nautilus. 86(2-4): 27-50, figs. 1-48., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8511517
page(s): 32, 34 [details]

source of synonymy Beu, A. G. (1998). Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM: 19. Indo-West Pacific Ranellidae, Bursidae and Personidae (Mollusca: Gastropoda), a monograph of the New Caledonian fauna and revisions of related taxa. Mémoires du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle. 178: 1-255., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58988686 [details]

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Introduced: alien

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