Aporrhais pespelecani   (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pelican's foot

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Classification / Names Common names | Synonyms | CoL | ITIS | WoRMS

Gastropoda | Littorinimorpha | Aporrhaidae

Environment: milieu / climate zone / depth range / distribution range Ecology

Benthic; depth range 6 - 8 m (Ref. 118694).  Temperate; 76°N - 25°N, 31°W - 61°E

Distribution Countries | FAO areas | Ecosystems | Occurrences | Introductions

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

Length at first maturity / Size / Weight / Age

Maturity: Lm ?  range ? - ? cmCommon length : 5.1 cm SHL male/unsexed; (Ref. 360)

Short description Morphology

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.

Biology     Glossary (e.g. epibenthic)

Life cycle and mating behavior Maturity | Reproduction | Spawning | Eggs | Fecundity | 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 References | Coordinator | Collaborators

Sabelli, B. and H.S. Feinberg (eds.). 1879. (Ref. 360)

IUCN Red List Status (Ref. 130435: Version 2024-1)


CITES status (Ref. 108899)

Not Evaluated

CMS (Ref. 116361)

Not Evaluated

Threat to humans

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

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Price category (Ref. 80766): Unknown.