A stack of Crepidula fornicata. The small one on the left is a male, the oval animal at the top left is a chiton.
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Mollusca
Class:
Gastropoda
Subclass:
Caenogastropoda
Order:
Littorinimorpha
Family:
Calyptraeidae
Genus:
Crepidula
Species:
C. fornicata
Binomial name
Crepidula fornicata
(Linnaeus, 1758)
Crepidula fornicata is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails and cup and saucer snails. It has many common names, including common slipper shell, common Atlantic slippersnail, boat shell, quarterdeck shell, fornicating slipper snail, Atlantic slipper limpet and it is in Britain as the "common slipper limpet".
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Crepidulafornicata is a species of medium-sized sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Calyptraeidae, the slipper snails and cup and saucer...
change depends on association with other individual snails). Crepidulafornicata and Crepidula onyx are well-studied examples of invasive, exotic species...
according to the taxonomy of the Gastropoda by Bouchet & Rocroi, 2005. Crepidulafornicata was brought to Europe on imported American oysters in the late 19th...
with Conspecifics Mediate Sex Change in a Protandrous Gastropod Crepidulafornicata". The Biological Bulletin. 229 (3): 276–281. doi:10.1086/bblv229n3p276...
preferred host of this ectoparasite is the common slipper shell Crepidulafornicata or the Atlantic bay scallop Argopecten irradians. The glossy white...
eastern oyster, the Atlantic slipper shell or "common slippershell" (Crepidulafornicata), the hard clam (also known as the quahog, little neck clam or cherrystone...
C.; Henry, Jonathan Q. (2022), "Slipper snail tales: How Crepidulafornicata and Crepidula atrasolea became model molluscs", Current Topics in Developmental...
become male, and then later on become female. See for example the genus Crepidula. Within the main clade Heterobranchia, the informal group Opisthobranchia...
Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in 1987. Recorded wildlife includes Crepidulafornicata Lamarck (Slipper Limpet). The Belfast Lough Ramsar site (wetlands...
change from male to female have not been clearly defined. Unlike Crepidulafornicata (the American slipper limpet), this species does not form stacks...
Sabrina; Viard, Frédérique. "Infestation of the invasive mollusc Crepidulafornicata by the native shell borer Cliona celata: a case of high parasite...
the endemic Olympia Oyster. The invasive arched slipper limpet (Crepidulafornicata) shell is taken and, packed into the sidewalk. With doing so, the...
†Creonella †Creonella obscuriplica – type locality for species Crepidula †Crepidulafornicata †Crepidula plana †Cretolamna †Cretolamna appendiculata Crotalus †Crotalus...
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