Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order [unassigned] Caenogastropoda > Superfamily Epitonioidea > Family Janthinidae > Genus Janthina

Janthina janthina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

JanthinaRöding, 1798accepted genus name
Amethistina [sic] orthographic variant
Amethistina [sic] synonym

Species group names

Helix janthina Linnaeus, 1758 synonym
Janthina bicolor Menke, 1828 synonym
Janthina carpenteri Mörch, 1860 synonym
Janthina contorta Carpenter, 1857 synonym
Janthina fragilis Lamarck, 1801 synonym
Janthina striulata Carpenter, 1857 synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

 Dutch: paarse zeilslak sources: Lindner, G. (1999). Schelpengids: schelpen uit de wereldzeeën, vorm, voorkomen, systematiek [The shell guide: shells from the world oceans, shape, distribution and systematics]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-409-3. 320 pp.
 English: bubble raft shell; common purple sea snail; purple sea snail; violet snail sources: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg.;Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp.;Lindner, G. (1999). Schelpengids: schelpen uit de wereldzeeën, vorm, voorkomen, systematiek [The shell guide: shells from the world oceans, shape, distribution and systematics]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-409-3. 320 pp.
 English-United States: Violet Snail sources: Charles Hussey
 French: janthine
 German: Flosschnecke; Veilchenschnecke

Literature

basis of record

Laursen, D. 1953. The genus Ianthina: A monograph. Dana Report 38: 1-40, pl. 1.

additional source

Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.

additional source

ITIS database

additional source

Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.

additional source

Spencer, H.G.; Marshall, B.A.; Maxwell, P.A.; Grant-Mackie, J.A.; Stilwell, J.D.; Willan, R.C.; Campbell, H.J.; Crampton, J.S.; Henderson, R.A.; Bradshaw, M.A.; Waterhouse, J.B.; Pojeta, J. Jr (2009). Phylum Mollusca: chitons, clams, tusk shells, snails, squids, and kin, in: Gordon, D.P. (Ed.) (2009). New Zealand inventory of biodiversity: 1. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. pp. 161-254.

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Taxonomy

CLEMAM
WoRMS

External Links

Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications)
USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Marine Life Information Network - UK
Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2014). Janthina janthina. In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2014) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140155

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Occurrence

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Environment


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Importance

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2008-05-18 by Serge Gofas

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