North Sea Benthos Project (NSBP)

WoRMS taxon details

Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Nucella lapillus eggs

AphiaID

140403 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140403)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Nucella Röding, 1798

Original name

Buccinum lapillus Linnaeus, 1758

Synonymised names

Buccinum filosum Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Buccinum lapillus Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Nassa ligata Röding, 1798 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Nassa rudis Roding, 1798 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Nucella (Polytropa) lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Nucella theobroma Roding, 1798 · unaccepted (synonym)

Polytropa lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Purpura (Polytropa) lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Purpura (Polytropa) lapillus var. caerulescens Dautzenberg, 1920 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura (Polytropa) lapillus var. citrina Dautzenberg, 1920 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura (Polytropa) lapillus var. mixta Dautzenberg, 1920 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura (Polytropa) lapillus var. monozonalis Dautzenberg, 1920 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura bizonalis Lamarck, 1822 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura buccinoidea Blainville, 1829 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura celtica Locard, 1886 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura imbricata Lamarck, 1822 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura lapillina Locard, 1886 · unaccepted > unjustified emendation

Purpura lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Purpura lapillus var. anomala Middendorff, 1849 · unaccepted (synonym)

Purpura lapillus var. aurantia Dautzenberg, 1887 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura lapillus var. bizonalis Lamarck, 1822 · unaccepted

Purpura lapillus var. castanea Dautzenberg, 1887 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (invalid; not Küster, 1859 )

Purpura lapillus var. crassissima Dautzenberg, 1887 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura lapillus var. fauce-violaceo Dautzenberg, 1887 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura lapillus var. fusco-apicata Dautzenberg & Fischer, 1925 · unaccepted (synonym)

Purpura lapillus var. imbricata Lamarck, 1822 · unaccepted (variety)

Purpura lapillus var. lactea Dautzenberg, 1887 · unaccepted (synonym)

Purpura lapillus var. lineolata Dautzenberg, 1887 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Purpura lapillus var. major Jeffreys, 1867 · unaccepted (synonym)

Purpura lapillus var. minor Jeffreys, 1867 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (invalid; not Küster, 1860)

Purpura lapillus var. ponderosa Verkrüzen, 1881 · unaccepted (synonym)

Purpura rugosa Lamarck, 1822 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Thais (Polytropa) lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Thais lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Buccinum lapillus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 739 [details] Available for editors

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Descriptive notes

Distribution Range: 60.72°N to 40.8°N; 72.8°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland; Canada; Canada: Labrador,...

Distribution Range: 60.72°N to 40.8°N; 72.8°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland; Canada; Canada: Labrador, Quebec, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nucella lapillus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140403 on 2025-04-06

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2022-12-31 08:47:27Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Purpura buccinoidea Blainville, 1829) Blainville, H. M. D. de. (1828-1830). Malacozoaires ou Animaux Mollusques. [in] Faune Française. Levrault, Paris 320 p., 48 pl. [livr. 18 (29 Nov. 1828), p. 1-80; livr. 20 (7 March 1829), p. 81-170; livr. 23 (1 Aug. 1829), p. 171-240; livr. 28 (3 July 1830), p. 241-320]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78700
page(s): 148-149; pl. 6 fig. 5 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillus var. anomala Middendorff, 1849) Middendorff T. A. von. (1849). Beiträge zur einer Malacozoologica Rossica, II. Aufzählung und Beschreibung der zur Meeresfauna Russlands gehörigen Einschaler. Mémoires de l'Académie Impériale des Sciences de St-Petersbourg, sixième série, Sciences naturelles. 6: 329-516, pl. 1-11., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29015189
page(s): 443, pl. 9 figs 4-5 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillus var. aurantia Dautzenberg, 1887) Dautzenberg, P. (1887). Une excursion malacologique à Saint-Lunaire (Ille-et-Vilaine) et aux environs de cette localité. Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques de Paris. 9(2): 96-122 [reprint 1-27]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60785491
page(s): 119 [details]

original description (of Purpura (Polytropa) lapillus var. caerulescens Dautzenberg, 1920) Dautzenberg, P. (1920). Faunule malacologique marine du Val-André (Côtes-du-Nord). Journal de Conchyliologie. 65: 41-70., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16014915
page(s): 47 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillus var. castanea Dautzenberg, 1887) Dautzenberg, P. (1887). Une excursion malacologique à Saint-Lunaire (Ille-et-Vilaine) et aux environs de cette localité. Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques de Paris. 9(2): 96-122 [reprint 1-27]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60785491
page(s): 119 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillus var. crassissima Dautzenberg, 1887) Dautzenberg, P. (1887). Une excursion malacologique à Saint-Lunaire (Ille-et-Vilaine) et aux environs de cette localité. Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques de Paris. 9(2): 96-122 [reprint 1-27]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60785491
page(s): 119 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillus var. fauce-violaceo Dautzenberg, 1887) Dautzenberg, P. (1887). Une excursion malacologique à Saint-Lunaire (Ille-et-Vilaine) et aux environs de cette localité. Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques de Paris. 9(2): 96-122 [reprint 1-27]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60785491
page(s): 119 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillus var. lactea Dautzenberg, 1887) Dautzenberg, P. (1887). Une excursion malacologique à Saint-Lunaire (Ille-et-Vilaine) et aux environs de cette localité. Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques de Paris. 9(2): 96-122 [reprint 1-27]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60785491
page(s): 119 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillus var. major Jeffreys, 1867) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 4: 277 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillus var. minor Jeffreys, 1867) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 4: 277 [details]

original description (of Purpura (Polytropa) lapillus var. mixta Dautzenberg, 1920) Dautzenberg, P. (1920). Faunule malacologique marine du Val-André (Côtes-du-Nord). Journal de Conchyliologie. 65: 41-70., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16014915
page(s): 47 [details]

original description (of Purpura (Polytropa) lapillus var. monozonalis Dautzenberg, 1920) Dautzenberg, P. (1920). Faunule malacologique marine du Val-André (Côtes-du-Nord). Journal de Conchyliologie. 65: 41-70., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16014915
page(s): 47 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillus var. ponderosa Verkrüzen, 1881) Verkrüzen, T.A. (1881). Bericht über meinen Besuch der grossen Bank von Neufundland in Sommer 1880. Jahrbücher der Deutschen Malakozoologischen Gesellschaft. 8: 82-100, pls 3-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16287062
page(s): 95 [details]

original description (of Purpura imbricata Lamarck, 1822) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 244-245, 577 [details]

original description (of Buccinum filosum Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3486 [details]

original description (of Buccinum lapillus Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 739 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Nassa ligata Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]

original description (of Nassa rudis Roding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]

original description (of Purpura (Polytropa) lapillus var. citrina Dautzenberg, 1920) Dautzenberg, P. (1920). Faunule malacologique marine du Val-André (Côtes-du-Nord). Journal de Conchyliologie. 65: 41-70., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16014915
page(s): 47 [details]

original description (of Nucella theobroma Roding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]

original description (of Purpura bizonalis Lamarck, 1822) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 249 [details]

original description (of Purpura celtica Locard, 1886) Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012
page(s): 147, 556 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillina Locard, 1886) Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012
page(s): 146, footnote [details]

original description (of Purpura rugosa Lamarck, 1822) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1822). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome septième, 711 pp. Paris, published by the author. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47433
page(s): 242 [details]

original description (of Purpura lapillus var. lineolata Dautzenberg, 1887) Dautzenberg, P. (1887). Une excursion malacologique à Saint-Lunaire (Ille-et-Vilaine) et aux environs de cette localité. Bulletin de la Société d'études scientifiques de Paris. 9(2): 96-122 [reprint 1-27]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60785491
page(s): 119 [details]

basis of record Houart, R. (2024). Living Muricidae of the world. Ocenebrinae. Harxheim: ConchBooks. 238 pp.
page(s): 51, textfigs 6B, 10D-H, pls 37L-W, 38A-V, 39A-G [details]

Other

context source (Schelde) Maris, T., O. Beauchard, S. Van Damme, E. Van den Bergh, S. Wijnhoven & P. Meire. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. [Reference matrices and Ecotope areas Annex to the Evaluation methodology Scheldt estuary Study on “Ecotope areas and intactness index”. Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke. 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Rehder, H. A. (1962). The status of Nucella Roeding. The Nautilus. 75(3): 109-111, pl. 10, figs. 1-4., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8283033 [details]

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Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Unreviewed

Dimensions maximum size of 25 to 50 mm [details]

Definitions

Language	Name
Danish	purpursnegl	[details]
Dutch	purperslak	[details]
English	northern dogwinklenorthern dog whelkdogwhelkdog whelkAtlantic dogwinkleAtlantic dog whelk	[details]
French	pourpre petit pierrepourpre de l'Atlantiquepourprepilaubigorneau blanc	[details]
German	SteinschneckeSteinchenNördliche Purpurschneckenordische Steinchenschneckenordische Purpurschnecke	[details]
Norwegian	purpursnegl	[details]
Norwegian Bokmål	purpursnegl	[details]
Norwegian Nynorsk	purpursnigel	[details]
Russian	моллюски-багрянки	[details]
Swedish	purpursnäcka	[details]