Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Truncatelloidea > Family Caecidae > Subfamily Caecinae > Genus Caecum

Caecum glabrum (Montagu, 1803)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Dentalium Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Caecum*	J. Fleming, 1813	accepted genus name
*Brochina*	Gray, 1857	synonym
*Brochus*	T. Brown, 1827	synonym
*Caecum (Brochina)*	J. E. Gray, 1857	synonym
*Caecum (Caecum)*	J. Fleming, 1813	synonym
*Odontidium*	R. A. Philippi, 1836	synonym

Species group names

*Brochina glabra*	(Montagu, 1803)	synonym
*Brochina glabra var. gallica*	de Folin, 1872	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Dutch: buishorentje; stomp buishorentje; stompe buishoren sources: Adema, J.P.H.M.; de Bruyne, R.H.; Perk, F.A. (1989). Preliminary name list of marine molluscs and shells, regularly washed ashore along the coasts of the Netherlands and Belgium [Voorlopige naamlijst van de mariene mollusken en de regelmatig langs de kust van Nederland en België aangespoelde schelpensoorten]. De Strandvlo 9(2): 49-59;PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;de Bruyne, R.H.; Bank, R.A.; Adema, J.P.H.M.; Perk, F.A. (1994). Nederlandse naamlijst van de weekdieren (Mollusca) van Nederland en Belgie: feestuitgave ter gelegenheid van het zestig-jarig jubileum van de Nederlandse Malacologische Vereniging [Dutch namelist of the Mollusca from the Netherlands and Belgium: festive edition at the occasion of the 60-year jubilee of the Dutch Malacological Society]. Backhuys Publishers: Leiden, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-73348-33-1. 149 pp.

English: smooth blind shell 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.

German: Gemeine Sandohrschnecke; Zwerghörnchen

Literature

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	Landau, B. M.; Ceulemans, L.; Van Dingenen, F. (2018). The upper Miocene gastropods of northwestern France, 2. Caenogastropoda. Cainozoic Research. 18 (2): 177-368.
additional source	Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp.
new combination reference	Fleming, J. (1813). Conchology. The Edinburgh Encyclopaedia. 7: 55-107, pls. 203-206.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Caecum glabrum (Montagu, 1803). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138952