Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Vetigastropoda > Order Lepetellida > Superfamily Fissurelloidea > Family Fissurellidae > Subfamily Emarginulinae > Genus Emarginula

Emarginula crassa J. Sowerby, 1813

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Emarginula*	Lamarck, 1801	accepted genus name
*Semperia*	Crosse, 1867	synonym

Species group names

*Emarginula anassa*	Dean, 1926	synonym
*Emarginula crassalta*	S. V. Wood, 1874	synonym
*Emarginula decussata*	R. A. Philippi, 1844	synonym
*Emarginula gigantea*	G. Seguenza, 1863	synonym
*Emarginula magnifica*	Pilsbry, 1891	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: thick emarginula; thick slit limpet 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.;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Dickschalige Ausschnittsschnecke; Dickschalige Schlitzschnecke 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.

Norwegian Bokmål: korallhjelmsnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: korallhjelmsnigel

Literature

original description	Sowerby, J. (1812-1815). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth [Vol. I]. London, privately published, pp. i-vii, 9-234 + index [2 pp.], pl. 1-102.
additional source	Sowerby, J. (1812-1815). The mineral conchology of Great Britain; or coloured figures and descriptions of those remains of testaceous animals or shells, which have been preserved at various times and depths in the earth [Vol. I]. London, privately published, pp. i-vii, 9-234 + index [2 pp.], pl. 1-102.
additional source	Hoffman L. & Freiwald A. (2018). Last snails standing: a tale of Fissurellidae (Gastropoda) from deep-water coral habitats off Mauritania since the Pleistocene. Miscellanea Malacologica. 7(6): 115-126.
additional source	Marquet R. (1995). Pliocene gastropod faunas from Kallo (Oost-Vlaanderen, Belgium) — Part 1. Introduction and Archaeogastropoda. Mededelingen van de Werkgroep voor Tertiaire en Kwartaire Geologie. 32(1-3): 53-85.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Emarginula crassa J. Sowerby, 1813. 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:139957