Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Patellogastropoda > Superfamily Patelloidea > Family Patellidae

Patella Linnaeus, 1758

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ansates*	G. B. Sowerby II, 1839	synonym
*Costatopatella*	Pallary, 1912	synonym
*Helcion (Ansates)*	G. B. Sowerby II, 1839	synonym
*Patellastra*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Patina*	Leach, 1847	synonym

Children

Patella aspera Röding, 1798
Patella caerulea Linnaeus, 1758
Patella candei A. d'Orbigny, 1840
Patella depressa Pennant, 1777
Patella ferruginea Gmelin, 1791
Patella gomesii Drouët, 1858
Patella ordinaria Mabille, 1888
Patella pellucida Linnaeus, 1758
Patella piperata A. Gould, 1846
Patella rustica Linnaeus, 1758
Patella tenuis Gmelin, 1791
Patella ulyssiponensis Gmelin, 1791
Patella vulgata Linnaeus, 1758

Literature

original description	Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. 1(10) [iii], 824 p.
additional source	Powell, A. W. B. (1973). The patellid limpets of the world (Patellidae). Indo-Pacific Mollusca. 3(15): 75-206.
additional source	Koch, H.J. (1949). A review of the South African representatives of the genus Patella Linnaeus. Annals of the Natal Museum. 11(3): 487–517.
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].
additional source	Fischer-Piette, E. & Gaillard, J.-M. (1959). Les patelles, au long des côtes ibériques et nord-marocaines. Journal de Conchyliologie. 99(4): 135-200.