Atys brocchii

Atys brocchii (Michelotti, 1847)

Atys brocchii @ Premià de Mar 9.05.1989 (Col. Lluís Dantart) by Lluís Toll

Taxonomy

	Superdomain	Biota
	Kingdom	Animalia
	Phylum	Mollusca
	Class	Gastropoda
	Subclass	Heterobranchia
	Infraclass	Euthyneura
	Subterclass	Tectipleura
	Order	Cephalaspidea
	Superfamily	Haminoeoidea
	Family	Haminoeidae
	Genus	Atys
	Species	Atys brocchii  (Michelotti, 1847)
	Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 478950).

Taxonomic note: Species considered as fossil by WoRMS and CLEMAM, it is in the list of current species in Greece (Koukouras, 2010). The reports from the coasts of Maresme are the first for this species in the Spanish shores.

Description

Biology

Etymology

Distribution
Found in the Mediterranean only: as a fossil on the hill of Turin and in Tortona, Italy (Michelotti, 1847: 151 as Bulla Brocchii). In Greece it is reported as a current species (Koukouras, 2010). In Catalonia, Lluís Dantart found two shells on the Maresme coast: in Mataró on 5/05/1989 on a sand bottom at 10 m and at Premià de Mar on 9/05/1989 on a sand bottom at 20 m (see Toll et Ballesteros, 2017).

Known georeferenced records of the species: Atys brocchii
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

Abundance

Western Mediterranean:
Eastern Mediterranean:
Atlantic Ocean:

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Bibliography

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Bibliography based on the works by Steve Long, 2006. Bibliography of Opisthobranchia 1554-2000 and Gary McDonald, 2009. Bibliographia Nudibranchia, with later updates from other resources.

Further reading

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• Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera
• World Register of Marine Species

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