Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Caenogastropoda > Order Neogastropoda > Superfamily Muricoidea > Family Muricidae > Subfamily Pagodulinae > Genus Boreotrophon

Boreotrophon clathratus (Linnaeus, 1767)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Boreotrophon*	P. Fischer, 1884	accepted genus name
*Trophon (Boreotrophon)*	P. Fischer, 1884	synonym

Species group names

*Buccinum lamellatum*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Buccinum lyratum*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Fusus costatus*	Hisinger, 1837	synonym
*Fusus lamellosus*	(Gmelin, 1791), sensu G. B. Sowerby I, 1835	synonym
*Fusus scalariformis*	A. Gould, 1840	synonym
*Murex (Trophon) clathratus*	(Linnaeus, 1767)	synonym
*Murex (Trophon) clathratus var. grandis*	Mörch, 1869	synonym
*Murex bamffius*	Donovan, 1804	synonym
*Tritonium clathratum*	(Linnaeus, 1767)	synonym
*Tritonium clathratum f. elatior*	Middendorff, 1849	synonym
*Tritonium clathratum f. normalis*	Middendorff, 1849	synonym
*Tritonium clathratum f. ventricosa*	Middendorff, 1849	synonym
*Tritonium gunneri*	Lovén, 1846	synonym
*Tritonium rossi*	Mörch, 1857	synonym
*Trophon cepulus*	[sic]	synonym
*Trophon clathratus*	(Linnaeus, 1767)	synonym
*Trophon clathratus var. grandis*	(Mörch, 1869)	synonym
*Trophon clathratus var. intermedia*	Verkrüzen, 1881	synonym
*Trophon clathratus var. maxima*	[sic]	synonym
*Trophon clathratus var. maximus*	Verkrüzen, 1881	synonym
*Trophon gunneri*	(Lovén, 1846)	synonym
*Trophon gunneri var. coddi*	Harmer, 1918	synonym
*Trophon richardsonii*	Gray, 1869	synonym; nom. nud.

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

Dutch: grote ribhoren

English: clathrate trophon

Literature

basis of record	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.
additional source	Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. American Fisheries Society Special Publication, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp.
additional source	Linkletter, L. E. (1977). A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68: p.
additional source	Trott, T. J. (2004). Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist. 11, 261-324.
additional source	Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp.
additional source	Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London. 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455].

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Boreotrophon clathratus (Linnaeus, 1767). 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:146732