WoRMS taxon details
Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791)
140521 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140521)
accepted
Species
Acrybia (Amauropsis) islandica (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Amauropsis cornea (Möller, 1842) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Amauropsis purpurea Dall, 1871 · unaccepted
Bulbus (Amauropsis) islandicus (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872 · unaccepted
Mamma (Lunatia) islandica (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Natica (Amauropsis) islandica (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Natica canaliculata A. Gould, 1840 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior primary homonym...)
Invalid: junior primary homonym of Natica canaliculata Deshayes, 1832; Natica gouldii C. B. Adams, 1847 is a replacement name
Natica cornea Møller, 1842 · unaccepted
Natica exulans A. Gould, 1841 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Natica gouldii C. B. Adams, 1847 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior primary homonym...)
Invalid: junior primary homonym of Natica gouldii Philippi, 1845
Natica helicoides G. Johnston, 1835 · unaccepted (synonym)
Natica islandica (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Natica purpurea (Dall, 1871) · unaccepted (dubious synonym)
Nerita islandica Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Nerita islandica 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. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3675 [details]
page(s): 3675 [details]
Note "Habitat in Oceano septemtrionali"
Type locality "Habitat in Oceano septemtrionali" [details]
Distribution Range: 76°N to 37°N; 120°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada:...
Distribution Range: 76°N to 37°N; 120°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Georges Bank [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140521 on 2025-07-08
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Natica helicoides G. Johnston, 1835) Johnston, G. (1835). Description of <i>Natica helicoides</i>, a new British Shell. <em>Berwickshire Naturalists ' Club Proceedings , i . p . 69 .</em> 1: 69., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=GSkGAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA69 [details]
original description (of Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872) Dawson J.W. (1872). The post-Pliocene geology of Canada. Sub-kingdom Mollusca. <em>The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science.</em> (n.s.)6(4): 369-416., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7714469
page(s): 392 [details]
original description (of Nerita islandica 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. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3675 [details]
original description (of Amauropsis purpurea Dall, 1871) Dall, W. H. (1871). Descriptions of sixty new forms of mollusks and brachiopods of the southeastern coast of North America and the North Pacific Ocean, with notes on others already described. <em>American Journal of Conchology.</em> 7(2): 93-159, pl. 13-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15918246 [details]
original description (of Natica cornea Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910
page(s): 80 [details]
original description (of Natica canaliculata A. Gould, 1840) Gould, A. A. (1840). Descriptions of thirteen new species of shells. <em>American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> (1) 38: 196-197., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30966509
page(s): 197. [details]
original description (of Natica exulans A. Gould, 1841) Gould, A.A. (1841). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Comprising the Mollusca, Crustacea, Annelida, and Radiata. <em>Published Agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge,.</em> xiii + 373 pp., 15 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76081 [details]
original description (of Natica gouldii C. B. Adams, 1847) Adams, C. B. (1847). Catalogue of the genera and species of recent shells in the collection of C.B. Adams. Justus Cobb, Middlebury, Vermont. 1-32., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12095972
page(s): 21. [details]
basis of record Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) <i>Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue.</i> Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350432257_Marine_and_brackish-water_Gastropoda_of_Russia_and_adjacent_countries_an_illustrated_catalogue
page(s): 63, pl. 30 F [details]
basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
original description (of Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872) Dawson J.W. (1872). The post-Pliocene geology of Canada. Sub-kingdom Mollusca. <em>The Canadian Naturalist and Quarterly Journal of Science.</em> (n.s.)6(4): 369-416., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7714469
page(s): 392 [details]
original description (of Nerita islandica 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. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3675 [details]
original description (of Amauropsis purpurea Dall, 1871) Dall, W. H. (1871). Descriptions of sixty new forms of mollusks and brachiopods of the southeastern coast of North America and the North Pacific Ocean, with notes on others already described. <em>American Journal of Conchology.</em> 7(2): 93-159, pl. 13-16., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15918246 [details]
original description (of Natica cornea Møller, 1842) Møller, H. P. C. (1842). Index Molluscorum Groenlandiae. <em>Naturhistorisk Tidsskrift.</em> 4(1): 76-97., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2322910
page(s): 80 [details]
original description (of Natica canaliculata A. Gould, 1840) Gould, A. A. (1840). Descriptions of thirteen new species of shells. <em>American Journal of Science and Arts.</em> (1) 38: 196-197., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30966509
page(s): 197. [details]
original description (of Natica exulans A. Gould, 1841) Gould, A.A. (1841). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Comprising the Mollusca, Crustacea, Annelida, and Radiata. <em>Published Agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge,.</em> xiii + 373 pp., 15 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76081 [details]
original description (of Natica gouldii C. B. Adams, 1847) Adams, C. B. (1847). Catalogue of the genera and species of recent shells in the collection of C.B. Adams. Justus Cobb, Middlebury, Vermont. 1-32., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12095972
page(s): 21. [details]
basis of record Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) <i>Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue.</i> Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls., available online at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350432257_Marine_and_brackish-water_Gastropoda_of_Russia_and_adjacent_countries_an_illustrated_catalogue
page(s): 63, pl. 30 F [details]
basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
Other
additional source
Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. <em>Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126.</em> 405 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors 
[request]
additional source Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details]
additional source Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR.</em> 116: 1-292 [In Russian]., available online at http://ashipunov.info/shipunov/school/books/golikov1978_rakov_brjukh_litorali_morei_sssr.djvu
page(s): 151, fig. 107 [details]
[request]additional source Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA., available online at http://www.malacolog.org [details]
additional source Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. <em>Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR.</em> 116: 1-292 [In Russian]., available online at http://ashipunov.info/shipunov/school/books/golikov1978_rakov_brjukh_litorali_morei_sssr.djvu
page(s): 151, fig. 107 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality "Habitat in Oceano septemtrionali" [details]Unreviewed
Dimensions maximum size of 25 to 35 mm [details]Distribution Range: 76°N to 37°N; 120°W to 0°W. Distribution: Greenland; Greenland: West Greenland, East Greenland; Canada; Canada: Newfoundland, Nova Scotia; USA: Maine, Massachusetts, Georges Bank [details]
Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Danish | højspiret boresnegl | [details] |
| Dutch | IJslandse tepelhoren | [details] |
| English | Iceland moonsnail | [details] |
| French | natice d'Islande | [details] |
| German | Island-MondschneckeIsländische MondschneckeIsländische Bohrschnecke | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (108 publications) (from synonym Natica helicoides G. Johnston, 1835)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Amauropsis purpurea Dall, 1871)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Malacopics (Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791) Norway, Nordland, Lofoten Islands, Vestresand, b...
To Malacopics (Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791) Russian Federation, Respublika Jakoetija, Laptev...
To NMNH Extant Collection (Amauropsis purpurea Holotype USNM 108988) (from synonym Amauropsis purpurea Dall, 1871)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Choristes elegans Lectotype USNM 188948) (from synonym Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872)
To PESI (from synonym Nerita islandica Gmelin, 1791)
To PESI (from synonym Natica purpurea (Dall, 1871))
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Natica helicoides G. Johnston, 1835)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (108 publications) (from synonym Natica helicoides G. Johnston, 1835)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) (from synonym Amauropsis purpurea Dall, 1871)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (28 publications) (from synonym Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications)
To Dyntaxa
To Malacopics (Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791) Norway, Nordland, Lofoten Islands, Vestresand, b...
To Malacopics (Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791) Russian Federation, Respublika Jakoetija, Laptev...
To NMNH Extant Collection (Amauropsis purpurea Holotype USNM 108988) (from synonym Amauropsis purpurea Dall, 1871)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Choristes elegans Lectotype USNM 188948) (from synonym Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872)
To PESI (from synonym Nerita islandica Gmelin, 1791)
To PESI (from synonym Natica purpurea (Dall, 1871))
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Natica helicoides G. Johnston, 1835)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Choristes elegans P. P. Carpenter, 1872)
To ITIS
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