North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Emarginula crassa J. Sowerby, 1813

To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 40913)

AphiaID

139957 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:139957)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Emarginula Lamarck, 1801

Original name

Emarginula crassa J. Sowerby, 1813

Synonymised names

Emarginula (Emarginula) magnifica Pilsbry, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (synonym)

Emarginula anassa Dean, 1926 · unaccepted (synonym)

Emarginula crassalta S. V. Wood, 1874 † · unaccepted

Emarginula decussata R. A. Philippi, 1844 † · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)

invalid: junior homonym of Emarginula decussata Münster, 1841

Emarginula gigantea G. Seguenza, 1863 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (invalid: junior homonym of...)

invalid: junior homonym of Emarginula gigantea Coquand, 1859

Environment

marine

Original description

Sowerby, J. (1812-1815). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth [Vol. I]. London, privately published, pp. i-vii, 9-234 + index [2 pp.], pls 1-102 [pp. i-vii, 9-32, pls 4-9 (1812); pp. 33-96, pls 10-44 (1813); pp. 97-178, pls 45-78** (1814); pp. 179-234, Index, pls 79-102 (1815)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/14408
page(s): 73 [the third one with this number], pl. 33, upper row [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Emarginula crassa J. Sowerby, 1813. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=139957 on 2026-01-23

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Emarginula crassa J. Sowerby, 1813. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=139957 on 2026-01-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2009-12-04 12:28:50Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2011-04-02 19:01:32Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Sowerby, J. (1812-1815). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth [Vol. I]. London, privately published, pp. i-vii, 9-234 + index [2 pp.], pls 1-102 [pp. i-vii, 9-32, pls 4-9 (1812); pp. 33-96, pls 10-44 (1813); pp. 97-178, pls 45-78** (1814); pp. 179-234, Index, pls 79-102 (1815)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/14408
page(s): 73 [the third one with this number], pl. 33, upper row [details]

original description (of Emarginula anassa Dean, 1926) Dean, J.D. (1926). The nomenclature of certain British mollusca and description of a new species of Emarginula. Journal of Conchology. 18(1): 21-24, pl. 1. [details]

original description (of Emarginula (Emarginula) magnifica Pilsbry, 1891) Pilsbry, H. A. (1890-1891). Manual of conchology, structural and systematic, with illustrations of the species. Ser. 1. Vol. 12: Stomatellidae, Scissurellidae, Pleurotomariidae, Haliotidae, Scutellinidae, Addisoniidae, Cocculinidae, Fissurellidae. pp 1-323, pls 1-65. Philadelphia, published by the Conchological Section, Academy of Natural Sciences. [pp. 1-64, pls. 1-15, May 27, 1890; pp. 65-128, pls. 16-30, Aug. 12, 1890; pp. 129-192, pls. 31-45, Dec. 16, 1890; pp. 193-323, pls. 46-65, May 1, 1891]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41517
page(s): 251-252, pl. 64 fig. 5-6 [details]

original description (of Emarginula gigantea G. Seguenza, 1863 †) Seguenza, G. (1863). Paleontologia malacologica delle rocce terziarie del distretto di Messina studiata nei suoi rapporti zoologici e geognostici. Fissurellidi. Annali dell'Accademia degli Aspiranti Naturalisti, Napoli. (3) 2: 77-95, pl. 4-5., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=GU4XAAAAYAAJ&pg=RA2-PA77
page(s): 93, pl. 5 fig, 4-4a [details]

original description (of Emarginula decussata R. A. Philippi, 1844 †) Philippi, R. A. (1844). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062
page(s): 89 [details]

original description (of Emarginula crassalta S. V. Wood, 1874 †) Wood, S.V. (1874). Addendum. In Wood, S.V. (Ed.) Supplement to the Monograph of the Crag Mollusca with Descriptions of Shells from the Upper Tertiaries of the East of England. Vol. III. Univalves and Bivalves. Monograph Palaeontographical Society of London. 27: 173-189., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36908989
page(s): 90 [details]

basis of record Fukuda, H.; Hashimoto, K.; Haga, T. (2025). A labyrinth of homonymy – eight primary homonyms involving six different species of the Fissurellidae (Vetigastropoda: Fissurellida). Molluscan Research. DOI: 10.1080/13235818.2025.2565742: 1-25., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/13235818.2025.2565742
page(s): 3 [details] Available for editors

additional source Sowerby, J. (1812-1815). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth [Vol. I]. London, privately published, pp. i-vii, 9-234 + index [2 pp.], pls 1-102 [pp. i-vii, 9-32, pls 4-9 (1812); pp. 33-96, pls 10-44 (1813); pp. 97-178, pls 45-78** (1814); pp. 179-234, Index, pls 79-102 (1815)]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/14408
page(s): 73, pl. 33; note: page 73 appears twice in the book, this is the second instance [details]

additional source Marquet R. (1995). Pliocene gastropod faunas from Kallo (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium) — Part 1. Introduction and Archaeogastropoda. Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie. 32(1-3): 53-85., available online at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/download?type=document&docid=521617
page(s): 62-63, pl. 2 fig. 3 [details]

additional source Hoffman L. & Freiwald A. (2018). Last snails standing: a tale of Fissurellidae (Gastropoda) from deep-water coral habitats off Mauritania since the Pleistocene. Miscellanea Malacologica. 7(6): 115-126.
page(s): 118, figs 15-16 [details]