MolluscaBase taxon details
Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776)
234208 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234208)
accepted
Species
Acmaea (Collisella) testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Acmaea (Tectura) testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Acmaea fergusoni Wheat, 1913 · unaccepted (synonym)
Acmaea tessulata (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted
Acmaea testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Collisella tessulata (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted
Collisella testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Lottia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted
Notoacmea testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Patella (Acmaea) testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Patella amoena Say, 1822 · unaccepted (synonym)
Patella borniana Helbling, 1779 · unaccepted > junior subjective 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)
Patelloida testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted (unaccepted combination)
Tectura tessulata (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted
Tectura testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted
Testudinalia tessellata (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted (misspelling)
Testudinalia tessulata (O. F. Müller, 1776) · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(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. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 32: 1-282., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47550 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234208 on 2025-09-11
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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. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 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. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 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. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 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 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. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]
original description (of Patella clypea T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868 [details]
original description (of Acmaea fergusoni Wheat, 1913) Wheat, S. C. (1913). Long Island fauna and flora --II. A Long Island <i>Acmaea</i>, and a new variety of <i>Urosalpinx cinerea</i>. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of the Brooklyn. Institute of Arts and Sciences.</em> 2: 17-20. [details]
original description (of Patella borniana Helbling, 1779) Helbling G. S. (1779). Beyträge zur Kenntniß neuer und seltener Konchylien. Aus einigen Wienerischen Sammlungen. <i>Abhandlungen einer Privatgesellschaft in Böhmen, zur Aufnahme der Mathematik, der vaterländischen Geschichte, und der Naturgeschichte</i>, 4: 102-131, pl. 1-4., available online at http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN624644928%7CLOG_0013
page(s): 106, pl. 1 fig. 7 [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. <em>Typis Hallageriis, Havniae.</em> 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. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 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 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. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]
original description (of Patella clypea T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868 [details]
original description (of Acmaea fergusoni Wheat, 1913) Wheat, S. C. (1913). Long Island fauna and flora --II. A Long Island <i>Acmaea</i>, and a new variety of <i>Urosalpinx cinerea</i>. <em>Bulletin of the Museum of the Brooklyn. Institute of Arts and Sciences.</em> 2: 17-20. [details]
original description (of Patella borniana Helbling, 1779) Helbling G. S. (1779). Beyträge zur Kenntniß neuer und seltener Konchylien. Aus einigen Wienerischen Sammlungen. <i>Abhandlungen einer Privatgesellschaft in Böhmen, zur Aufnahme der Mathematik, der vaterländischen Geschichte, und der Naturgeschichte</i>, 4: 102-131, pl. 1-4., available online at http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN624644928%7CLOG_0013
page(s): 106, pl. 1 fig. 7 [details]




Language | Name | |
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English | plant limpet [from synonym]common tortoiseshell limpet [from synonym] | [details] |
French | acmée à écaille de tortue [from synonym] | [details] |
German | Schildkrötenschnecke [from synonym] | [details] |
Norwegian Bokmål | skilpaddesnegl [from synonym] | [details] |
Norwegian Nynorsk | skjelpaddesnigel [from synonym] | [details] |
Swedish | sköldpaddskålsnäcka | [details] |
To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntypes of Acmaea fergusoni. Wheat, 1913. Science Bulletin (Brooklyn Museum) 2 (2): 17-20 - catalog no. 179952) (from synonym Acmaea fergusoni Wheat, 1913)
To Malacopics (Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) Iceland, Austurland, Reyðarfjörður, beached, collected August 2000, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To Malacopics (Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) Norway, Finnmark, Gamvik, beached, ex coll. J. Trausel .)
To Malacopics (Testudinalia testudinalis (O.F.Müller,1776) France, Bretagne, Finistère, Ile Molène)
To Malacopics (Testudinalia testudinalis (O.F.Müller,1776) United Kingdom, Scotland, Highland, Inverness-shire, Onich)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 069831)
To Malacopics (Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) Iceland, Austurland, Reyðarfjörður, beached, collected August 2000, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To Malacopics (Testudinalia testudinalis (O. F. Müller, 1776) Norway, Finnmark, Gamvik, beached, ex coll. J. Trausel .)
To Malacopics (Testudinalia testudinalis (O.F.Müller,1776) France, Bretagne, Finistère, Ile Molène)
To Malacopics (Testudinalia testudinalis (O.F.Müller,1776) United Kingdom, Scotland, Highland, Inverness-shire, Onich)
To Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History (YPM IZ 069831)