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

Tectura virginea (O.F. Müller, 1776)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Tectura*	Gray, 1847	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Acmaea virginea*	(Müller O.F., 1776)	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

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

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

Dutch: gewone schotelhoren

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

English-United States: White Tortoiseshell Limpet sources: Charles Hussey

Norwegian Bokmål: jomfrusnegl sources: Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus: ??

Norwegian Nynorsk: jomfrusnigel sources: Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus: ??

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

Swedish: jungfruskålsnäcka

Literature

original description	Muller O.F. (1776). Zoologiae Danicae Prodromus, seu Animalium Daniae et Norvegiae Indigenarum characteres, nomina, et synonyma imprimis popularum. , 1-274.
basis of record	Nakano & Ozawa (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: Molecular, morphological and palaeontological evidence. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1) 79-99.
basis of record	Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (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.

Genbank

Taxonomy

Link To CLEMAM

External Links

Link To GBIF

Citation

Gofas, S. (2012). Tectura virginea (O.F. Müller, 1776). In: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2012) European Register of Marine Species, accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:153552