Aporrhais pespelecani, Pelican's foot

Aporrhais pespelecani   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pelican's foot

Native range | All suitable habitat | Point map | Year 2050
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Classification / Names Κοινά ονόματα | Συνώνυμα | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Gastropoda | Littorinimorpha | Aporrhaidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / εύρος βάθους / distribution range Οικολογία

; εύρος βάθους 6 - 8 m (Αναφ. 118694).  Temperate; 76°N - 25°N, 31°W - 61°E

Distribution Χώρες | Περιοχές FAO | Οικοσυστήματα | Παρουσίες | Εισαγωγές

Northeast Atlantic, Arctic and the Mediterranean: North and Celtic seas. Temperate to polar.

Length at first maturity / Μέγεθος / Weight / Age

Γεννητική Ωρίμανση: Lm ?  range ? - ? cmCommon length : 5.1 cm SHL αρσενικό/απροσδιόριστο; (Αναφ. 360)

Short description Μορφολογία

Shell: quite high conical spire, with an outer lip characteristically broadened and fingered, looking like a bird's foot; whorls are angular with a nodular median keel (two in the body whorl); the suture is hardly incised; outer lip of the aperture is thickened, and the inner lip produces a marked columellar callus; development of the external fingers marks the attainment of maturity; sculpture consists of the nodular keel and thin spiral grooves that extend over the whole surface; coloration is variable, white, beige, darkish chestnut, reddish brown or patched, axially flamed with draker shades than the base color; operculum is horny, ellipsoidal and with a terminal nucleus. Body: pink or reddish with whitish spots, foot is very long and narrow; eyes sessile, set at the bases of the long tentacles; mantle cavity has one gill, the osphradium/penis; radula is taenioglossan.

Βιολογία     Γλωσσάρι (π.χ. epibenthic)

This is a carnivorous species (Ref. 96498).

Life cycle and mating behavior Γεννητική Ωρίμανση | Αναπαραγωγή | Γεννοβολία | Eggs | Γονιμότητα | Larvae

Members of the order Neotaenioglossa are mostly gonochoric and broadcast spawners. Life cycle: Embryos develop into planktonic trocophore larvae and later into juvenile veligers before becoming fully grown adults.

Main reference Αναφορές | Συντονιστής | Συνεργάτες

Sabelli, B. and H.S. Feinberg (eds.) 1879 Simon and Schuster's Guide to Shells. Simon and Schuster's Inc. New York. 512 pp. (Αναφ. 360)

IUCN Red List Status (Αναφ. 130435: Version 2025-1)


CITES status (Αναφ. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Αναφ. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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Διαδικτυακές πηγές

Alien/Invasive Species database | BHL | BOLD Systems | CISTI | DiscoverLife | FAO(Publication : search) | Fishipedia | GenBank (genome, nucleotide) | GloBI | Gomexsi | Google Books | Google Scholar | Google | PubMed | Δέντρο Ζωής | Wikipedia (Go, αναζήτηση) | Zoological Record

Estimates based on models

Price category (Αναφ. 80766): Unknown.