Aartsenia candida (Møller, 1842)

Høisaeter, Tore, 2014, The Pyramidellidae (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) of Norway and adjacent waters. A taxonomic review, Fauna norvegica 34, pp. 7-78 : 55

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.5324/fn.v34i0.1672
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.16922156
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scientific name	Aartsenia candida (Møller, 1842)
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Aartsenia candida (Møller, 1842) View in CoL

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Amaura candida sp.n. Møller 1842:80

Type material: Several syntypes in ZMUC GAS-6 – GAS-9 ; BMNH 1843.6.30 and SMNH 3843 View Materials (3812) ( Schiøtte & Warén 1992) .

Type locality: West Greenland, not specified ( Schiøtte & Warén 1992).

Material seen: None.

Diagnosis: Shell: Large (reaching at least 9 mm), with dominating body whorl, very low and inconspicuous columellar fold, aperture oblong. Soft parts: Not known. Operculum: Not known.

Remarks: The only Norwegian record of this large Arctic species is two shells from Karlsøy, Troms county (70°N, 9-27 m) ( Leche 1878, Warén 1991). As all other records of the species are from Greenland, Spitsbergen and the Russian Arctic (Barents, Kara and Laptev Seas, Kantor & Sysoev 2006), and there are no reports from east Finnmark, where all other high-Arctic animals in Norway are found, the record is surprising. The hydrographic conditions around Karlsøy do not in any way favour an Arctic fauna (already in 1880 Patella vulgata was found on one of the islands). The presence of this species in Norwegian waters needs verification.