Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Truncatelloidea > Family Vitrinellidae > Genus Circulus

Circulus aemilii Rubio & Gofas, 2024

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Circulus*	Jeffreys, 1865	accepted genus name
*Cyclostrema (Lydiphnis)*	Melvill, 1906	original combination
*Lydiphnis*	Melvill, 1906	synonym
*Trochus (Circulus)*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym

Literature

original description	Rubio, F.; Gofas, S. (2024). A relict new species of Circulus (Truncatelloidea: Vitrinellidae) from a circalittoral bottom off Alboran Island. Iberus.42(2): 211-216.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Circulus aemilii Rubio & Gofas, 2024. 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:1766779

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Occurrence

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Absent

Doubtful

Native

Introduced

Naturalised

Invasive

Managed

No data

Environment

marine

Importance

EPPO alert:
listed 2009-03 This species is a pest to plants possibly presenting a risk to countries that are member of the European and Mediterranean Plant Protection Organization (EPPO)