Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Patellogastropoda > Superfamily Lottioidea > Family Lottiidae > Subfamily Tecturinae > Genus Tectura

Tectura virginea (O. F. Müller, 1776)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Patella Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tectura*	J. E. Gray, 1847	accepted genus name
*Acmaea (Tectura)*	J. E. Gray, 1847	synonym

Species group names

*Patella pulchella*	Forbes, 1835	junior homonym; nom. inval.
*Acmaea (Tectura) unicolor*	(Forbes, 1844)	synonym
*Acmaea unicolor*	(Forbes, 1844)	synonym
*Acmaea virginea*	(O. F. Müller, 1776)	synonym
*Lottia unicolor*	Forbes, 1844	synonym
*Patella parva*	da Costa, 1778	synonym
*Tectura virginea var. conica*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym
*Tectura virginea var. lactea*	Jeffreys, 1865	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Dutch: gewone schotelhoren; roze schotelhoren sources: De Blauwe, H. (2017). Strandvondsten: een praktische veldgids. Fotograaf: Misjel Decleer. Stichting Kunstboek: Oostkamp. ISBN 978-90-5856-570-9. 366 pp.

English: white tortoiseshell limpet sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Jungfräuliche Napfschnecke; Klippkleber; Weiße SchildkrötenNapfschnecke; Weiße Schildkrötenschnecke 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.

Norwegian Bokmål: jomfrusnegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: jomfrusnigel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: jungfruskålsnäcka

Literature

basis of record	Howson, C.M. & B.E. Picton. (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp.
additional source	Golikov, A. N.; Kussakin, O. G. (1978). Shell-bearing gastropods of the intertidal zone of the seas of the USSR. [Голиков А.Н., Кусакин О.Г. 1978. Раковинные брюхоногие моллюски литорали морей СССР. Определители по фауне СССР, издаваемые Зоологическим институтом АН СССР, 116: 292 с.]. Opredeliteli po faune SSSR, izdavayemye Zoologicheskim Institutom AN SSSR. 116: 1-292 [In Russian].
additional source	Landau B.M., Van Dingenen F. & Ceulemans L. (2017). The upper Miocene gastropods of northwestern France, 1. Patellogastropoda and Vetigastropoda. Cainozoic Research. 17(2): 75-166.
additional source	Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1): 79–99.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tectura virginea (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:153552