Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Velutinoidea > Family Velutinidae > Subfamily Lamellariinae > Genus Marsenia

Marsenia perspicua (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Helix Mitch.

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Marsenia*	Oken, 1823	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Bulla haliotoidea*	Montagu, 1803	synonym
*Helix neritoidea*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Lamellaria cochinella*	L. M. Perry, 1939	synonym
*Lamellaria perspicua*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Lamellaria spirolineata*	Monterosato, 1869	synonym
*Sigaretus kindelaninus*	Michaud, 1828	synonym

Literature

basis of record	Bergh, L. S. R. (1907). The Opisthobranchiata of South Africa. Transactions of the South African Philosophical Society. 17(1):1-144, pls. 1-14. In: Marine Investigations of South Africa 5(1). [Dated 1908].
status source	Fassio, G.; Stefani, M.; Russini, V.; Buge, B.; Bouchet, P.; Treneman, N.; Malaquias, M. A. E.; Schiaparelli, S.; Modica, M. V.; Oliverio, M. (2022). Neither slugs nor snails: a molecular reappraisal of the gastropod family Velutinidae. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 197(4): 924-964.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Marsenia perspicua (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:1505994