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Carinaria lamarckii Blainville, 1817

Carinaria, heteropodo

Taxonomy

Domain
Eukaryota

Kingdom
Animalia

Phylum
Mollusca

Class
Gastropoda

Order
Littorinimorpha

Superfamily
Pterotracheoidea

Family
Carinariidae

Genus
Carinaria

Species
lamarckii

Taxon category: Accepted

Syn.: Carinaria atlantica A. Adams & Reeve, 1850, Carinaria australis Quoy & Gaimard, 1833, Carinaria cymbium Woodward, 1890, Carinaria grimaldii Vayssière, 1904, Carinaria lamarcki Péron & Lesueur, 1810, Carinaria mediterranea Blainville, 1825, Carinaria mediterranea var. oceanica Vayssière, 1904, Carinaria punctata d'Orbigny, 1836, Pterotrachea lophyra Delle Chiaje, 1828, Pterotrachea navigera Delle Chiaje, 1828, Tubiola vatovai F. Nordsieck, 1973 (Horton et al., 2021).

Origin: Native

Distribution

Distribution: Mediterranean Sea, New Zealand, Cape Verde, Indian Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, North Atlantic Ocean (Horton et al., 2021).

References

  • Horton, T. Horton, T., Kroh, A., Ahyong, S., Bailly, N., Boyko, C. B., Brandão, S. N., Gofas, S., Hooper, J. N. A., Hernandez, F., Holovachov, O., Mees, J., Molodtsova, T. N., Paulay, G., Decock, W., Dekeyzer, S., Poffyn, G., Vandepitte, L., Vanhoorne, B., Adlard, R., ... Zhao, Z. (2021) World Register of Marine Species. Available from https://www.marinespecies.org at VLIZ.

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"Galapagos Species Database, Carinaria lamarckii", dataZone. Charles Darwin Foundation, https://datazone.darwinfoundation.org/en/checklist/?species=8789. Accessed 5 November 2026.