Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Vetigastropoda > Order Trochida > Superfamily Trochoidea > Family Trochidae > Subfamily Cantharidinae > Genus Gibbula

Gibbula magus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Trochus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Gibbula*	Risso, 1826	accepted genus name
*Gibbula (Forskalia)*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854	junior homonym
*Forskalena*	Iredale, 1918	synonym
*Forskalia*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854	synonym
*Forskalia (Magoforskalia)*	Coen, 1937	synonym
*Gibbula (Forskaliopsis)*	Coen, 1930	synonym
*Magoforskalia*	Coen, 1937	synonym
*Trochus (Forskalia)*	H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854	synonym
*Trochus (Gibbula)*	Risso, 1826	synonym

Species group names

*Forskalia (Magoforskalia) magus*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Forskalia (Magoforskalia) magus var. vulcanica*	Coen, 1937	synonym
*Gibbula (Forskaliopsis) bellinii*	Coen, 1930	synonym
*Gibbula forskadauri*	F. Nordsieck, 1982	synonym
*Gibbula protumida*	Locard, 1886	synonym
*Gibbula vulcanica*	(Coen, 1937)	synonym
*Trochus magus var. alba*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Trochus magus var. dilatata*	Chiamenti, 1900	synonym
*Trochus magus var. elata*	Sandri & Danilo, 1856	synonym
*Trochus magus var. obsoleta*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884	synonym
*Trochus magus var. producta*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1884	synonym
*Trochus tuberculatus*	da Costa, 1778	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: geknobbelde tolhoren; knobbelige tolhoren sources: Adema, J.P.H.M.; de Bruyne, R.H.; Perk, F.A. (1989). Preliminary name list of marine molluscs and shells, regularly washed ashore along the coasts of the Netherlands and Belgium [Voorlopige naamlijst van de mariene mollusken en de regelmatig langs de kust van Nederland en België aangespoelde schelpensoorten]. De Strandvlo 9(2): 49-59;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.

English: great top shell; turban top shell; turban topsnail 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.

German: Knorrige Kreiselschnecke; Zauberbuckel; Zauberbuckelschnecke 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.

Greek: Μαγικός τροχός

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	Nicklès, M. (1950). Mollusques testacés marins de la côte occidentale d'Afrique. Manuels Ouest-Africains: 2. Paris: Lechevalier. 269 pp.
additional source	Coen, G. (1937). Del solco spirale soprasuturale nella Gibbula magus L. e del genere Forskalia H. e A. Adams. Atti dell'Istituto Geo-Paleontologico, Reale Università di Catania. 5: 4 pp., 1 pl.
additional source	Avila S.P., Borges J.P. & Frias Martins A.M. de (2011) The littoral Trochoidea (Mollusca: Gastropoda) of the Azores. Journal of Conchology 40(4): 408-427.
additional source	Spadini, V. (2021). The genus Gibbula Risso, 1826 (Trochidae: Cantharidinae) from the Pliocene of Siena. Bollettino Malacologico. 57: 82-91.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Gibbula magus (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:141790