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

Crepidula fornicata (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Patella Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Crepidula*	Lamarck, 1799	accepted genus name
*Crypta*	J. E. Gray, 1847	junior homonym

Species group names

*Crepidula densata*	Conrad, 1843	synonym
*Crepidula virginica*	Conrad, 1870	synonym
*Crypta nautarum*	Mörch, 1877	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Dutch: Amerikaans muiltje; gewoon muiltje; muiltje; slipper; slippertje sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.;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.;Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.;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.;Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.

English: American slipper limpet; American slipper-limpet; common Atlantic slippersnail; oyster-pest; slipper limpet; slipper shell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);Dewarumez, J.-M.; Gévaert, F.; Massé, C.; Foveau, A.; Desroy, N.; Grulois, D. (2011). Les espèces marines animales et végétales introduites dans le bassin Artois-Picardie . UMR CNRS 8187 LOG/Agence de l'Eau Artois-Picardie: Douai. 138 pp.;Thieltges, D.W.; Buschbaum, C. (2007). Mechanism of an epibiont burden: Crepidula fornicata increases byssus thread production by Mytilus edulis. Journal of Molluscan studies 73(1): 75-77;Lindner, G. (1999). Schelpengids: schelpen uit de wereldzeeën, vorm, voorkomen, systematiek [The shell guide: shells from the world oceans, shape, distribution and systematics]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-409-3. 320 pp.

French: berlingot de mer; crépidule; crépidule pontée sources: Leewis, R. (2002). Flora en fauna van de zee [Marine flora and fauna]. Veldgids, 16. KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5011-153-X. 320 pp.;Bousfield, E. L. (1964). Coquillages des cotes canadiennes de l'Atlantique. Musée national du Canada. Ottawa. 89 p.

German: Amerikanische Pantoffelschnecke; Pantoffelschnecke; Porzellanpantoffel sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.;Lindner, G. (1999). Schelpengids: schelpen uit de wereldzeeën, vorm, voorkomen, systematiek [The shell guide: shells from the world oceans, shape, distribution and systematics]. Tirion: Baarn, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-409-3. 320 pp.;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: ostronpest

Literature

additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
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	Blanchard, M. (1997). Spread of the slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata (L. 1758) in Europe. Current state and consequences. Scientia Marina. 61 (Sup 2): 109-118.
additional source	Collin, R. (1995). Sex, size, and position: A test of models predicting size at sex change in the protandrous gastropod Crepidula fornicata. American Naturalist. 146(6): 815-831.
additional source	Orton, J. H. (1927). Is the American slipper-limpet (Crepidula fornicata) an oyster pest?. The Nautilus. 40(3): 102-103.
additional source	Adams, C. B. (1839). Observations on some species of the marine shells of Massachusetts, with descriptions of five new species. Boston Journal of Natural History. 2: 262-288, pl. 4.
additional source	Johnson, C. W. (1926). The abundance of Crepidula fornicata L. at Nantucket, Mass. The Nautilus. 40(2): 68.
additional source	Winkley, H. W. (1892). A few additional notes on Crepidula. The Nautilus. 6(6): 63.
additional source	Rawlings, T. A.; Aker, J. M.; Brunel, P. (2011). Clarifying the Northern Distributional Limits of the Slipper Limpet Crepidula fornicata in the Northwestern Atlantic. American Malacological Bulletin. 29(1-2): 105-119.
additional source	Stearns, R. E. C. (1897). Quarter-jacks and jingles. The Nautilus. 11(4): 38-40.
additional source	McNeill, G.; Nunn, J.; Minchin, D. (2010). The slipper limpet Crepidula fornicata Linnaeus, 1758 becomes established in Ireland. Aquatic Invasions 5(Suppl. 1): S21-S25.
additional source	Collin R. (2019). Calyptraeidae from the northeast Pacific (Gastropoda: Caenogastropoda). Zoosymposia. 13: 107-130.
additional source	Hoagland, K. E. (1979). The behavior of three sympatic species of Crepidula (Gastropoda: Prosobranchia) from the Atlantic, with implications for evolutionary ecology. The Nautilus. 93(4): 143-149, figs. 1-2.
additional source	Maury, C. J. (1925). A further contribution to the paleontology of Trinidad (Miocene Horizons). Bulletins of American Paleontology. 10(42): 153-402, pls. 1-43.
additional source	Mansfield, W. C. (1930). Miocene gastropods and scaphopods of the Choctawhatchee Formation of Florida. Florida State Geological Survey, Bulletin. 3: 1-185, 21 pls.
ecology source	Looby, A.; Erbe, C.; Bravo, S.; Cox, K.; Davies, H. L.; Di Iorio, L.; Jézéquel, Y.; Juanes, F.; Martin, C. W.; Mooney, T. A.; Radford, C.; Reynolds, L. K.; Rice, A. N.; Riera, A.; Rountree, R.; Spriel, B.; Stanley, J.; Vela, S.; Parsons, M. J. G. (2023). Global inventory of species categorized by known underwater sonifery. Scientific Data. 10(1).
ecology source	Richard J., Huet M., Thouzeau G. & Paulet Y.-M. (2006). Reproduction of the invasive slipper limpet, Crepidula fornicata, in the Bay of Brest, France. Marine Biology. 149(4): 789-801.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Crepidula fornicata (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:138963