Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Littorinimorpha > Superfamily Capuloidea > Family Capulidae > Genus Capulus

Capulus ungaricus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Patella Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Capulus*	Montfort, 1810	accepted genus name
*Pileopsis*	Lamarck, 1822	synonym

Species group names

*Amalthea maxima*	Schumacher, 1817	synonym
*Capulus hungaricus*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Capulus hungaricus thorsoni*	F. Nordsieck, 1969	synonym
*Patella militaris*	Linnaeus, 1771	synonym
*Protomedea ornata*	O. G. Costa, 1861	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Dutch: Hongaarse muts; zotskap sources: 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.;Eneman, E. (1984). Uit het Natuurhistorisch Archief [From the Natural History Archive]. De Strandvlo 4(1): 4-17

English: bonnet shell; capsnail; fool's cap; fools capsnail; Hungarian cap shell sources: 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.;North-West Atlantic Ocean species (NWARMS);PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Ungarkappe Hungarian; Ungarnkappe 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.;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.

Greek: Ουγγαρέζικο καπέλο sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Spanish, Castillian: caperuza

Swedish: ungersk mössa

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	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	Rolán E. (2005). Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. ConchBooks. Hackenheim. ISBN 3-325319-73-2. 455 pp.
additional source	Rosenberg, G.; Moretzsohn, F.; García, E. F. (2009). Gastropoda (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 579–699 in: Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Texas A&M Press, College Station, Texas.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Capulus ungaricus (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:138984