Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Rissooidea > Family Rissoidae > Genus Obtusella

Obtusella intersecta (S. V. Wood, 1857)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Obtusella*	Cossmann, 1921	accepted genus name
*Cingula (Obtusella)*	Cossmann, 1921	synonym
*Cingulina*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym

Species group names

*Cingula alderi*	(Jeffreys, 1858)	synonym
*Cingula intersecta*	(S. V. Wood, 1857)	synonym
*Obtusella alderi*	(Jeffreys, 1858)	synonym
*Putilla cantrainei*	F. Nordsieck, 1972	synonym
*Rissoa alderi*	Jeffreys, 1858	synonym
*Rissoa globosa*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Rissoa intersecta*	S. V. Wood, 1857	synonym
*Rissoa obtusa*	Cantraine, 1842	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: gewone knophoren; knophoren sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: obtuse minute risso sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Abgestumpfte Kleinschnecke

Literature

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.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Tabanelli, C., Bertaccini, E., Bertamini, R., Bongiardino, C., Gardella, F. & P. Petracci. (2020). La malacofauna dello "spungone". Le famiglie Rissoidae e Rissoinidae: addenda et corrigenda (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda: Littorinimorpha: Rissoidae, Rissoinidae). Quaderni di Studi e Notizie di Stiria Naturale della Romagna. 51: 19-40.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Obtusella intersecta (S. V. Wood, 1857). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141304