MolluscaBase - Patella tenuis Gmelin, 1791

Traits taxon details

Patella tenuis Gmelin, 1791

AphiaID

851901 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:851901)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Patella Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Patella tenuis Gmelin, 1791

Environment

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

Original description

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): 3708 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Patella tenuis Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851901 on 2025-07-15

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Patella tenuis Gmelin, 1791. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851901 on 2025-07-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-08-06 07:49:25Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2019-11-30 13:11:23Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

[taxonomic tree]

original description 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): 3708 [details]

additional source Christiaens, J. (1974). Révision du genre Patella (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 3e serie, no. 182, Zoologie 121: 1305-1392 [published 30 April 1974]., available online at http://bionames.org/bionames-archive/issn/0300-9386/121/1305.pdf
page(s): 1323; note: treated as synonym of P. candei [details] Available for editors

status source Titselaar F.F.L.M. (2019). Notes on the nomenclature of the Macaronesian Patella candei d'Orbigbny complex, with special reference to Patella ordinaria Mabille and P. crenata Gmelin (Patellofastropoda, Patellidae). Basteria. 83(4-6): 158-165., available online at https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/1001510/BAST2019083004009.pdf [details]

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