Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Muricoidea > Family Muricidae > Subfamily Pagodulinae > Genus Boreotrophon

Boreotrophon truncatus (Strøm, 1768)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Buccinum Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Boreotrophon*	P. Fischer, 1884	accepted genus name
*Trophon (Boreotrophon)*	P. Fischer, 1884	synonym

Species group names

*Trophon clathratus var. attenuata*	Harmer, 1918	synonym
*Trophon clathratus var. exilis*	Harmer, 1918	synonym
*Trophon truncatus*	(Strøm, 1768)	synonym
*Trophon truncatus var. abbreviata*	Mörch, 1869	synonym
*Trophon truncatus var. alba*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Trophon truncatus var. intermedia*	Harmer, 1918	synonym
*Trophon truncatus var. major*	Brögger, 1901	synonym
*Trophon truncatus var. scalaris*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Trophonopsis truncata*	(Strøm, 1768)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: ribbet pigsnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: stompe ribhoren

English: bobtail trophon sources: North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS)

German: Abgestutzte Purpurschnecke 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.

Swedish: vindeltornsnäcka

Literature

basis of record	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
additional source	Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Boreotrophon truncatus (Strøm, 1768). 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:146733