Rapturella globulina (Forbes, 1844)
Superdomain | Biota | |
Kingdom | Animalia | |
Phylum | Mollusca | |
Class | Gastropoda | |
Subclass | Heterobranchia | |
Infraclass | Euthyneura | |
Subterclass | Acteonimorpha | |
Superfamily | Acteonoidea | |
Family | Acteonidae | |
Genus | Rapturella | |
Species | Rapturella globulina (Forbes, 1844) | |
| Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 880467). | ||
- Tornatella globulina Forbes, 1844 (original)
- Liocarenus globulinus (Forbes, 1844)
Description
Biology
Etymology
- Rapturella. Named after the underwater city “Rapture”, from the science-fiction video game series “BioShock”.
- Globulinus. Derived from Latin “globulus”, globular, spherical, related to the shape of the shell.
Distribution
| Sources: | |
 : OBIS : GROC 2010-2011 : Enric Madrenas : João Pedro Silva : Bernard Picton : GBIF.ORG |  : OPK : VIMAR : Manuel Ballesteros. : M@re Nostrum : Altres fonts : Marine Regions |
References for the species: Rapturella globulina
- Catalunya: Hidalgo (1917, as Acteon).
Azores: Watson (1886, as Acteon), Dautzenberg (1889, as Acteon), Nordsieck (1972), Mikkelsen (1995), Malaquias (2001).
Sources: Cervera et al., 2004, Ballesteros, 2007 & 2016, McDonald, 2006 and other sources.
Abundance
| Western Mediterranean: |  |
| Eastern Mediterranean: | |
| Atlantic Ocean: | |
More pictures
- We have no (more) pictures for Rapturella globulina
Bibliography
Ballesteros, M. (2007). Lista actualizada de los opistobranquios (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Opisthobranchia) de las costas catalanas. Spira, 2(3), 163–188.
Ballesteros, M., Madrenas, E., & Pontes, M. (2016). Actualización del catálogo de los moluscos opistobranquios (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia) de las costas catalanas. Spira 6(2016): 1-28.
Ballesteros, M., Madrenas, E., & Pontes, M. (2020). OPK - Opistobranquis [Reference]. Retrieved January 2, 2019, from https://opistobranquis.info/
Cervera, J. L., Calado, G., Gavaia, C., Malaquías, M. A. E., Templado, J., Ballesteros, M., … Megina, C. (2004). An annotated and updated checklist of the opisthobranchs (Mollusca: Gastropoda) from Spain and Portugal (including islands and archipelagos). Boletín Instituto Español de Oceanografía, 20 (1-4): 1-111. L.
Flanders Marine Institute. (2018). Maritime Boundaries Geodatabase: Territorial Seas. Retrieved from http://www.marineregions.org/
Forbes, E. (1844). Report on the Mollusca and Radiata of the Aegean sea, and on their distribution, considered as bearing on geology. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1843): 130-193.
Hidalgo, J. C. (1917). Fauna malacológica de España, Portugal y las Baleares. Trabajos Del Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales. Serie Zoología (Madrid) 30: 752 Pp.
Long, S. J. (2006). Bibliography of Opisthobranchia 1554-2000. Bayside Books & Press, Tustin, CA, U.S.A. 672p.
McDonald, G. (2009). Bibliographia Nudibranchia. 2nd Online Edition, Annotated. 1072 pp Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California, Santa Cruz. Retrieved from http://escholarship.org/uc/item/8115h0wz
Salvador, R. B., & Cunha, C. M. (2016). Taxonomic revision of the fossil genera Bulimactaeon, Hemiauricula (= Liocarenus) and Nucleopsis, with description of a new Recent genus and species (Gastropoda: Heterobranchia: Acteonidae). Journal of Molluscan Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyw010
Templado, J., & Villanueva, R. (2010). Checklist of Phylum Mollusca. pp. 148-198 In Coll, M., et al., 2010. The biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: estimates, patterns, and threats. PLoS ONE 5(8):36pp.
WoRMS Editorial Board. (2018). World Register of Marine Species [Taxonomic Database]. Retrieved from http://www.marinespecies.org
Further reading
Cite this article as:
Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes (2012-2020) "Rapturella globulina" in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 28/11/2015, Accessed: 03/04/2020 at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/7WpYh)
