WoRMS name details
Patella apertura Montagu, 1803
151372 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151372)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 491, pl. 13, fig. 10 [details]
page(s): 491, pl. 13, fig. 10 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Patella apertura Montagu, 1803. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151372 on 2025-07-05
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Nomenclature
original description
Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): 491, pl. 13, fig. 10 [details]
basis of record Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 491, pl. 13, fig. 10 [details]
basis of record Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Iljina L. B. (1993). Определитель морских средне-миоценовых гастропод Юго-Западной Евразии [= Handbook for identification of the marine Middle Miocene gastropods of southwestern Eurasia]. <em>Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta RAS.</em> 255: 1-151., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/bookfiles/geokniga-iljina1993opredmorsksrednemiotsengastropodjuvevraziipin255.djvu
page(s): 22 [details]
page(s): 22 [details]
Unreviewed
Synonymy Description of Montagu (1803) was based on a juvenile specimen of Patella graeca Linnaeus, 1758. [details]
