North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776)

To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 179952)

AphiaID

234208 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234208)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Testudinalia Moskalev, 1966

Original name

Patella testudinalis O. F. Müller, 1776

Synonymised names

Acmaea fergusoni Wheat, 1913 · unaccepted (synonym)

Acmaea tessulata (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted

Patella amoena Say, 1822 · unaccepted (synonym)

Patella clealandi J. Fleming, 1828 · unaccepted (synonym)

Patella clypea T. Brown, 1827 · unaccepted (synonym)

Patella tessulata O. F. Müller, 1776 · unaccepted

Patella testudinalis O. F. Müller, 1776 · unaccepted (original combination)

Tectura testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted

Testudinalia tessulata (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Patella testudinalis O. F. Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. Typis Hallageriis, Havniae. 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234208 on 2026-09-14

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=234208 on 2026-09-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-10-17 08:02:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2010-10-03 15:39:41Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2019-05-20 05:59:39Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

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original description (of Patella clypea T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from Nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. [i–vi] + i–v pp., 52 pls [1–52, 10*, with unpaginated plate explanations]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868 [details]

original description (of Patella clealandi J. Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]

original description (of Patella testudinalis O. F. Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. Typis Hallageriis, Havniae. 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550 [details]

original description (of Patella tessulata O. F. Müller, 1776) Müller, O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characters, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularium. [Prodromus of Danish Zoology, or the characters, names, and synonyms of the indigenous animals of Denmark and Norway, especially of the popular ones.]. Typis Hallageriis, Havniae. 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550 [details]

original description (of Patella amoena Say, 1822) Say, T. (1822). An account of some of the marine shells of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 2(1): 221-248; 2(2): 257-276, 302-325., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36831411
page(s): 223 [details]

original description (of Acmaea fergusoni Wheat, 1913) Wheat, S. C. (1913). Long Island fauna and flora --II. A Long Island Acmaea, and a new variety of Urosalpinx cinerea. Bulletin of the Museum of the Brooklyn. Institute of Arts and Sciences. 2: 17-20. [details]