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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

Synonymised names

Patella solaris Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (objective synonym)

Patella tenuissima W. Turton, 1802 · unaccepted

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Subspecies Patella tenuis crenata Gmelin, 1791 sensu A. d'Orbigny, 1840 accepted as Patella ordinaria Mabille, 1888 (unaccepted > misapplication)

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: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=851901 on 2025-04-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-08-06 07:49:25Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2019-11-30 13:11:23Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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Nomenclature

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]

original description (of Patella tenuissima W. Turton, 1802) Turton W. (1802). A General System of Nature, through the three grand Kingdoms of Animals, Vegetables, and Minerals; systematicallydivided into their several classes, orders, genera, species, and varieties, with their habitations, manners, economy, structure,and peculiarities. Translated from Gmelin's last edition of the celebrated Systema Natura, by Sir Charles Linné : Amended andenlarged by the improvements and discoveries of later naturalists and societies, with appropriate copper-pla. Lackington and co. 4 vol.: , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83209
page(s): vol. 4 p. 575 [details]

original description (of Patella solaris 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
page(s): 10 [details]

Taxonomy

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]

Other

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