Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Truncatelloidea > Family Vitrinellidae > Genus Circulus

Circulus octoliratus (P. P. Carpenter, 1856)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Cyclostrema Marryat, 1819

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Circulus*	Jeffreys, 1865	accepted genus name
*Cyclostrema (Lydiphnis)*	Melvill, 1906	original combination
*Lydiphnis*	Melvill, 1906	synonym
*Trochus (Circulus)*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Janssen, R.; Zuschin, M. & Baal, C. (2011). Gastropods and their habitats from the northern Red Sea (Egypt: Safaga). Part 2: Caenogastropoda: Sorbeoconcha and Littorinimorpha. Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museum Wien, ser. A. 113: 373-509.
basis of record	Rubio, F. & Rolán, E. (2022). New species of Vitrinellidae (Gastropoda: Truncatelloidea) from the Indo-Pacific. The genus Circulus Jeffreys, 1865. Museo de Historia Natural, Universidad Santiago de Compostela. 422 pp.
additional source	Blatterer H. (2019). Mollusca of the Dahab region (Gulf of Aqaba, Red Sea). Denisia. 43: 1-480.
additional source	Ovalis P. & Mifsud C. (2019). Circulus octoliratus (Carpenter, 1856) and Phosinella digera (Laseron, 1956): two new non-indigenous gastropod species for the Mediterranean Sea. Iberus. 37(2): 267-270.
additional source	Edelman-Furstenberg, Y., Koral, H., Abramovich, S. & Mienis, H. K. (2020). A new occurrence off the coast of Israel of the non-indigenous gastropod Circulus octoliratus (Carpenter, 1856). Triton. 39: 10-12.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Circulus octoliratus (P. P. Carpenter, 1856). 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:1308042