Retimohnia caelata

Retimohnia caelata
Shells of Retimohnia caelata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Mollusca
Class: Gastropoda
Subclass: Caenogastropoda
Order: Neogastropoda
Family: Retimohniidae
Genus: Retimohnia
Species:
R. caelata
Binomial name
Retimohnia caelata
Synonyms[1]
  • Colus caelatus (A. E. Verrill, 1880)
  • Colus obesus (A. E. Verrill, 1884)
  • Mohnia caelata (Verrill & S. I. Smith, 1880)
  • Neptunea (Sipho) caelata Verrill, 1880
  • Neptunea obesus Verrill, A.E., 1884
  • Sipho caelatulus Verrill, 1884
  • Sipho caelatus (Verrill & Smith, 1880)
  • Sipho caelatus var. hebes Verrill, 1884
  • Sipho hebes Verrill, 1884
  • Sipho obesus Verrill, 1884

Retimohnia caelata is a species of sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Retimohniidae.[1] It has a fusiform shell with 12 axial ribs per whorl.[2]

Distribution

Retimohnia caelata is found along the North American continental slope of the Atlantic Ocean from North Carolina (U.S.) to Iceland[3] at depths from 1000 to 2500 meters.[4]

Taxonomy

Retimohnia caelata's position in the taxonomic tree has gone through several revisions. It was originally placed in the genus Neptunea by A.E. Verrill.[5] Over the next few decades, N. caelata would also be placed in Colus and Sipho.[6] In 1985, Bouchet et.al. placed it in genus Mohnia[4] where it stayed until 1995 when McLean devised a new genus, Retimohnia, that included 10 species taken from several closely related genera, including N. caelata, now named R. caelata.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 Retimohnia caelata A. E. Verrill, 1880. Retrieved through: World Register of Marine Species on 17 April 2010.
  2. ↑ Abbott, R. Tucker (Robert Tucker) (1954). American seashells. MBLWHOI Library. New York, Van Nostrand.
  3. ↑ "Retimohnia caelata (A.E.Verrill, 1880)". www.gbif.org. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  4. 1 2 Bouchet, Philippe; Warén, Anders; Società italiana di malacologia; Statens naturvetenskapliga forskningsråd (Sweden) (1985). Revision of the northeast Atlantic bathyal and abyssal Neogastropoda excluding Turridae (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Smithsonian Libraries. Milano : Società italiano di malacologia.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: publisher location (link)
  5. ↑ A E Verrill (1884). Second catalogue of Mollusca recently added to the fauna of the New England coast and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic, consisting mostly of deep sea species, with notes on others previously recorded.
  6. ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Retimohnia J. H. McLean, 1995". www.marinespecies.org. Retrieved 10 May 2026.
  7. ↑ McLean, J. (1995). "Four new genera for Northeastern Pacific prosobranch gastropods". The Nautilus. 108 (2): 39–41.
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