Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass Euthyneura > Subterclass Tectipleura > Order Pteropoda > Suborder Euthecosomata > Superfamily Limacinoidea > Family Limacinidae > Genus Limacina

Limacina retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Limacina*	Bosc, 1817	accepted genus name
*Heterofusus*	J. Fleming, 1823	synonym
*Scaea*	R. A. Philippi, 1844	synonym
*Spiratella*	Blainville, 1817	synonym
*Spirialis*	Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840	synonym

Species group names

*Fusus retroversus*	J. Fleming, 1823	synonym
*Heterofusus alexandri*	A. E. Verrill, 1872	synonym
*Heterofusus retroversus*	(J. Fleming, 1823)	synonym
*Limacina balea*	Møller, 1841	synonym
*Peracle flemingii*	Jeffreys, 1847	synonym
*Scaea stenogyra*	R. A. Philippi, 1844	synonym
*Spirialis australis*	Eydoux & Souleyet, 1840	synonym
*Spirialis gouldii*	W. Stimpson, 1851	synonym
*Spirialis jeffreysii*	Forbes & Hanley, 1849	synonym
*Spirialis macandrewi*	Forbes & Hanley, 1849	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: spitse contravleugelslak sources: de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: retrovert pteropod sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

German: Schiefer Schmetterling; Spitze Flügelschnecke; Umgekehrter Flossenfüßer

Literature

additional source	Morton, J. E. (1954). The biology of Limacina retroversa. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 33(2): 297-312.
additional source	Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch.
additional source	Janssen, A.W. (2012). Late Quaternary to Recent holoplanktonic Mollusca (Gastropoda) from bottom samples of the eastern Mediterranean Sea: systematics, morphology. Bollettino Malacologico. 48 (suplemento 9): 1-105.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Limacina retroversa (J. Fleming, 1823). 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:140227