Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Naticoidea > Family Naticidae > Subfamily Polinicinae > Genus Amauropsis

Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Nerita Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Amauropsis*	Mörch, 1857	accepted genus name
*Amauropsis brassiculina*	(Locard, 1897)	taxonomically included in
*Amauropsis islandica*	(Gmelin, 1791)	taxonomically included in
*Amauropsis sphaeroides*	(Jeffreys, 1877)	taxonomically included in
*Mamma (Amauropsis)*	Mörch, 1857	synonym

Species group names

*Amauropsis purpurea*	Dall, 1871	synonym
*Natica helicoides*	G. Johnston, 1835	synonym
*Natica purpurea*	(Dall, 1871)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Dutch: IJslandse tepelhoren sources: Soortenlijst Nederland - Marien

English: Iceland moonsnail sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

French: natice d'Islande sources: Bousfield, E. L. (1964). Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. Musée national du Canada. Ottawa. 89 p.

German: Isländische Bohrschnecke; Isländische Mondschnecke; Island-Mondschnecke

Literature

basis of record	Kantor Yu.I. & Sysoev A.V. (2006) Marine and brackish water Gastropoda of Russia and adjacent countries: an illustrated catalogue. Moscow: KMK Scientific Press. 372 pp. + 140 pls.
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	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].
additional source	Brunel, P., L. Bosse & G. Lamarche. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 pp.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Amauropsis islandica (Gmelin, 1791). 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:140521