Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Cypraeoidea > Family Ovulidae > Subfamily Simniinae > Genus Simnia

Simnia spelta (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Bulla Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Simnia*	Risso, 1826	accepted genus name
*Simia*	[sic]	orthographic variant
*Amphiperas (Simnia)*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Neosimnia*	P. Fischer, 1884	synonym
*Ovula (Neosimnia)*	P. Fischer, 1884	synonym
*Simnia (Neosimnia)*	P. Fischer, 1884	synonym

Species group names

*Neosimnia spelta*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Ovula acicularis*	Lamarck, 1810, sensu Tryon, 1885	synonym
*Ovula intermedia*	G. B. Sowerby I, 1828 sensu Tryon, 1885	synonym
*Ovula obsoleta*	Locard, 1891	synonym
*Ovula sowerbyana*	Weinkauff, 1881 sensu Tryon, 1885	synonym
*Ovula spelta*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Ovula spelta var. lutea*	Pallary, 1900	synonym
*Ovula spelta var. roseocarnea*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1883	synonym
*Ovulum secale*	G. B. Sowerby I, 1828	synonym
*Simnia (Neosimnia) illyrica*	F. A. Schilder, 1927	synonym
*Simnia illyrica*	F. A. Schilder, 1927	synonym
*Simnia nicaeensis*	Risso, 1826	synonym
*Simnia spelta var. brevis*	Coen, 1949	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

English: Mediterranean ovulid 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: Gorgonien-Porzellanschnecke

Literature

basis of record	Dolin L. & Ledon D. (2002). Nouveaux taxons et discussion de la systématique des genres correspondants d'Ovulidae (Mollusca, Caenogastropoda) de l'Éocène inférieur de Gan (France). Geodiversitas. 24(2): 329-347.
additional source	Nappo, A. (2024). An overview of the Mediterranean 'allied cowries' (Gastropoda: Ovulidae) with the description of Xandarovula aetheria n. sp. Bulletin of the National Museum of Natural History, Malta. 1(1): 37-66.
additional source	Lorenz, F.; Fehse, D. (2009). The living Ovulidae. A manual of the families of allied cowries: Ovulidae, Pediculariidae and Eocypraeidae. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 651 pp., 203 pls., 375 + numerous unnumb. text figs.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Simnia spelta (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:478341