Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Patellogastropoda > Superfamily Lottioidea > Family Lepetidae > Genus Iothia

Iothia fulva (O. F. Müller, 1776)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Patella Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Iothia*	Forbes, 1849	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Patella forbesi*	Forbes, 1839	synonym
*Tectura fulva*	(O. F. Müller, 1776)	synonym
*Tectura fulva var. albula*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Tectura fulva var. expansa*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Tectura ornata*	G. Seguenza, 1876	synonym
*Tectura rugosa*	Jeffreys, 1883	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

English: tawny limpet 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: Gelbbraune Napfschnecke

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	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Iothia fulva (O. F. Müller, 1776). 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:140186