Laona quadrata (S. Wood, 1839)
Superdomain | Biota | |
Kingdom | Animalia | |
Phylum | Mollusca | |
Class | Gastropoda | |
Subclass | Heterobranchia | |
Infraclass | Euthyneura | |
Subterclass | Tectipleura | |
Order | Cephalaspidea | |
Superfamily | Philinoidea | |
Family | Laonidae | |
Genus | Laona | |
Species | Laona quadrata (S. Wood, 1839) | |
| Classification according to Bouchet et al. (2017) Taxonomic source: World Register of Marine Species (AphiaID: 882941). | ||
- Bulla quadrata S. Wood, 1839 (original)
- Ossiania quadrata (S. Wood, 1839)
- Philine formosa Stimpson, 1850
- Philine polaris Aurivillius, 1887
- Philine scutulum Lovén, 1846
- Retusophiline polaris (Aurivillius, 1887)
- Philine quadrata (S. Wood, 1839)
Description
Biology
Etymology
- Quadrata. From the Latin “quadratus”, square, from “quattuor”, four.
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: Laona quadrata
- Cantabria: Pruvot-Fol (1954, as Laona), Ortea (1977c, as Laona).
Galicia: Urgorri and Besteiro (1983).
Portugal: Nordsieck (1972, as Laona).
Azores: Watson (1886), Dautzenberg (1889), Nordsieck (1972, as Laona (Ossiania)), Mikkelsen (1995), Linden (1995), Ávila et al. (1998), Ávila (2000), Malaquias (2001).
Sources: Cervera et al., 2004, Ballesteros, 2007 & 2016, McDonald, 2006 and other sources.
Abundance
| Western Mediterranean: |  |
| Eastern Mediterranean: | |
| Atlantic Ocean: | |
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Further reading
Cite this article as:
Ballesteros, Manuel, Enric Madrenas, Miquel Pontes (2012-2020) "Laona quadrata" in OPK-Opistobranquis, Published: 11/09/2014, Accessed: 04/06/2020 at (https://opistobranquis.info/en/XMTM6)
