Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Velutinoidea > Family Velutinidae > Subfamily Velutininae

Velutina J. Fleming, 1820

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Velutella*	Gray, 1847	synonym
*Velutina (Velutella)*	Gray, 1847	synonym; alternate representation

Children

Velutina cryptospira Middendorff, 1849
Velutina laevigata (Linnaeus, 1767)
Velutina plicatilis (O. F. Müller, 1776)
Velutina schneideri Friele, 1886
Velutina velutina (O. F. Müller, 1776)

Literature

original description	Fleming J. (1820). Mollusca. in: Brewster D. (ed.), The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia . 14(2): 598-635.
basis of record	Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR. 116: 1-292 [In Russian].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Velutina J. Fleming, 1820. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138631