Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Calyptraeoidea > Family Calyptraeidae

Crepidula Lamarck, 1799

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Crypta*	J. E. Gray, 1847	junior homonym; nom. inval.

Children

Crepidula adspersa Dunker, 1846
Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus, 1758)
Crepidula moulinsii Michaud, 1829
Crepidula porcellana Lamarck, 1801
Crepidula unguiformis Lamarck, 1822

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: muiltjes sources: 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.

French: crépidules

Literature

original description	Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91.
additional source	Dall, W. H. (1900). Some names which must be discarded. The Nautilus. 14(4): 44–45.
additional source	Collin, R. (2003). Phylogenetic Relationships Among Calyptraeid Gastropods and Their Implications for the Biogeography of Marine Speciation. Systematic Biology. 52(5): 618-640.
additional source	Hoagland, K.E. 1977. Systematic review of fossil and recent Crepidula and discussion of the evolution of the Calyptraeidae. Malacologia, 16(2): 353-420.
additional source	Hoagland, K. E. (1983). Notes on type specimens of Crepidula (Prosobranchia: Calyptraeidae) in the Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 135: 1-8.
additional source	Howard, A. D. (1952). Molluscan shells occupied by tanaids. The Nautilus. 65(3): 74-75, pl. 5, figs. 3-4.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Crepidula Lamarck, 1799. 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:137722