North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Volvulella acuminata (Bruguière, 1792)

AphiaID

141139 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141139)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Volvulella R. B. Newton, 1891

Original name

Bulla acuminata Bruguière, 1792

Synonymised names

Bulla acuminata Bruguière, 1792 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Rhizorus acuminatus (Bruguière, 1792) · unaccepted

Volvula cylindrica E. A. Smith, 1872 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)

invalid: junior homonym of Volvula cylindrica Carpenter, 1863; V. smithii is a replacement name

Volvula smithii Pilsbry, 1893 · unaccepted

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Bulla acuminata Bruguière, 1792) Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke. volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; :345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Volvulella acuminata (Bruguière, 1792). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141139 on 2025-12-17

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025). European Register of Marine Species. Volvulella acuminata (Bruguière, 1792). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=141139 on 2025-12-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2013-07-28 08:25:54Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-02-18 18:34:35Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Bulla acuminata Bruguière, 1792) Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke. volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; :345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006 [details]

original description (of Volvula cylindrica E. A. Smith, 1872) Smith, E. A. (1872). A list of species of shells from West Africa, with descriptions of those hitherto undescribed. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1871: 727–739, pl. 75., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28554665
page(s): 738, pl. 75 fig. 29 [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Ceulemans, L.; Van Dingenen, F.; Landau B. M. (2018). The lower Pliocene gastropods of Le Pigeon Blanc (Loire-Atlantique, northwest France). Part 5 – Neogastropoda (Conoidea) and Heterobranchia (fine). Cainozoic Research. 18(2): 89-176.
page(s): 123, pl. 7 fig. 10 [details] Available for editors

additional source Janssen, R. & Stein, G. (with contributions of Moths, H. & Wieneke, U. (2025). Die Molluskenfauna des Obermiozäns (Langenfeldium s. lat.; Tortonium) von Groß Pampau (Schleswig-Holstein). Paleontos. 36: 1-181, pls. 1-69. [details]