Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Truncatelloidea > Family Assimineidae > Subfamily Assimineinae > Genus Assiminea

Assiminea grayana J. Fleming, 1828

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Assiminea*	J. Fleming, 1828	accepted genus name
*Assiminia*	J. Fleming, 1828	orthographic variant
*Assemania*	Dollfus, 1912	synonym
*Assiminea (Assiminea)*	J. Fleming, 1828	synonym

Species group names

*Missing ostiorum*	Bavay, 1920	objective synonym
*Assemania ostiorum*	Bavay, 1920	synonym
*Assiminea (Assiminea) grayana*	J. Fleming, 1828	synonym; alternate representation
*Assiminea (Assiminea) ostiorum*	Bavay, 1920	synonym; alternate representation
*Assiminea ostiorum*	Bavay, 1920	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: marsksnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: Gray's kustslak; schorreslakje sources: de Bruyne, R.H. (1991). Schelpen van de Nederlandse kust [Shells of the Dutch coast]. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij/KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5107-017-9. III, 165 pp.;Dumoulin, E. (1986). On an identification table for terrestrial and freswater mollusks [Naar aanleiding van een determinatietabel voor land-en zoetwatermollusken]. De Strandvlo 6(2): 50-59

English: Dun Sentinel; dun sentinel sources: Charles Hussey;Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Kegelige Marschschnecke; Kegelige Strandschnecke; Marschenschnecke sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Swedish: marsksnäcka

Literature

original description	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. Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan. Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda.
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. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Shin, Cho Rong, Park, Bia, Choi, Eun Hwa and Hwang, Ui Wook. (2024). A newly recorded species of Assiminea grayana J. Fleming, 1828 (Gastropoda: Assimineidae) from the Korean Peninsula. Korean Journal of Malacology. 40(2): 59-66 2024.
additional source	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.
additional source	Fortuin, A. W., de Wolf, L. & Borghouts-Biersteker, C. (1981). The population structure of Assiminea grayana, Fleming, 1828 (Gastropoda, Assimineidae), in the south-west Netherlands. Basteria. 45(4-5): 73-78.
additional source	Paladilhe, A. (1867). Nouvelles miscellanées malacologiques, III. Le genre Assiminea, en France. – Nouvelles miscellanées malacologiques, 2e fascicule. pp. 33-37, pl. 2 fig. 1-6. Paris (F. Savy) [1 March].
identification resource	Rowson, B., Powell, H., Willing, M., Dobson, M. & Shaw, H. (2021). Freshwater Snails of Britain and Ireland. FSC Publications, Telford, UK.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Assiminea grayana J. Fleming, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138814