Philine Ascanius 1772

• Main Authors: Valdés, Ángel, Cadien, Donald B., Gosliner, Terrence M.
• Format: Other/Unknown Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2016
• Subjects: Biodiversity; Taxonomy; Animalia; Mollusca; Gastropoda; Cephalaspidea; Philinidae; Philine; Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Lamarck; Norway; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://zenodo.org/record/6066656; https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6066656

Genus Philine Ascanius, 1772 sensu lato Philine Ascanius 1772: 331. Type species (by monotypy): Bulla aperta Linnaeus, 1767. South Africa. Lobaria Müller 1776: xxix, 226. Type species (by monotypy): Lobaria quadriloba Müller, 1776 [= Philine aperta (Linnaeus, 1767)]. Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. Bullaea Lamarck 1801: 63. Type species (by monotypy): Philine planciana Lamarck, 1801 [= Philine aperta (Linnaeus, 1767)]. Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean. ? Hermania Monterosato 1884: 147. Type species (by monotypy): Bulla scabra Müller, 1784. Norway. ? Yokoyamaia Habe 1950: 50. Type species (by original designation): Philine ornatissima Yokoyama, 1927. Japan. Choshiphiline Habe 1958: 120. Type species (by monotypy): Philine pygmaea Yokoyama, 1922 [= Philine japonica Lischke, 1872. Japan. Globophiline Habe 1958: 120. Type species (by monotypy): Globophiline kawamurai Habe, 1958. Japan. Philingwynia Nordsieck 1972: 22. Type species (by original designation): Philine monterosati Jeffreys in Monterosato, 1874. Mediterranean. Retusophiline Nordsieck 1972: 20. Type species (by original designation): Philine lima Brown, 1827. British Isles. ? Praephiline Chaban & Soldatenko 2009: 206. Type species (by original designation): Philine finmarchica M. Sars, 1858. North Atlantic and adjacent Arctic Ocean. Diagnosis. Shell internal, thin and fragile, ovate to subquadrate; sculpture absent or of spiral striae or punctuations; only one whorl visible; spire sunken; aperture very large; columella simple, reduced. Live animals usually white, headshield occupying between 1/2–2/3 of body length; parapodial lobes reduced; posterior shield normally with a median notch; radula with 1–3 lateral teeth, sometimes denticulate; gizzard plates present or absent; reproductive system monaulic, with long prostate; penis unarmed. Remarks. Species treated here under Philine sensu lato display considerable morphological variation in radular, gizzard and shell morphology as well as reproductive anatomy. Because of this variability, some ...