WoRMS taxon details
Cymbula oculus (Born, 1778)
456661 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:456661)
accepted
Species
Patella oculus Born, 1778 · unaccepted (original combination)
Patella oculus var. planulata W. H. Turton, 1932 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
Patella oculushirci da Costa, 1771 · unaccepted (unavailable name: published in a...)
unavailable name: published in a non-binominal work
Patella schroeteri Krauss, 1848 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
marine
(of Patella oculus Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). <i>Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis</i>. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cymbula oculus (Born, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456661 on 2026-01-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Patella oculus Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). <i>Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis</i>. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890 [details]
original description (of Patella oculushirci da Costa, 1771) da Costa, E. M. (1770–1771). <i>Conchology, or natural history of shells</i>. London. 26 pp., 12 pls. [an unfinished anonymous publication, often attributed to Humphrey]. , available online at https://books.google.com/books/about/Conchology_or_Natural_history_of_shells.html?id=y7IW2NmuDyAC [details]
original description (of Patella schroeteri Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 43. [details]
original description (of Patella oculus var. planulata W. H. Turton, 1932) Turton, W. H. (1932). The marine shells of Port Alfred S. Africa. Humphrey Milford, London. pp. i-xvi, 1-331, pls 1-70. [published 22 Dec. 1932].
page(s): 163, pl. 37, sp. 1160. [details] Available for editors
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basis of record Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. <i>Journal of Molluscan Studies</i> 73(1): 79–99. [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Patella oculushirci da Costa, 1771) da Costa, E. M. (1770–1771). <i>Conchology, or natural history of shells</i>. London. 26 pp., 12 pls. [an unfinished anonymous publication, often attributed to Humphrey]. , available online at https://books.google.com/books/about/Conchology_or_Natural_history_of_shells.html?id=y7IW2NmuDyAC [details]
original description (of Patella schroeteri Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 43. [details]
original description (of Patella oculus var. planulata W. H. Turton, 1932) Turton, W. H. (1932). The marine shells of Port Alfred S. Africa. Humphrey Milford, London. pp. i-xvi, 1-331, pls 1-70. [published 22 Dec. 1932].
page(s): 163, pl. 37, sp. 1160. [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. <i>Journal of Molluscan Studies</i> 73(1): 79–99. [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
additional source
Koufopanou, V., Reid, D.G., Ridgeway, S.A., & Thomas, R.H. (1999). A molecular phylogeny of the patellid limpets (Gastropoda: Patellidae) and its implications for the origins of their antitropical distribution. <em>Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.</em> 11(1): 138-156., available online at https://doi.org/10.1006/mpev.1998.0557 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | South African eye limpet [from synonym]eye limpet [from synonym] | [details] |
| German | Augen-Napfschnecke [from synonym] | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (30 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications) (from synonym Patella oculus Born, 1778)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cymbula oculus)
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Patella oculus Born, 1778)
To Malacopics (Cymbula oculus (Born, 1778) South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town, Sea Point, ex co...
To Malacopics (Cymbula oculus (Born,1778) South Africa, Western Cape, False Bay, Simonstad)
To Malacopics (Cymbula oculus (Born,1778) South Africa, Western Cape, Plettenberg, Keurboom lagoon)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Patella oculus USNM 1197353) (from synonym Patella oculus Born, 1778)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Patella oculus Born, 1778)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (42 publications) (from synonym Patella oculus Born, 1778)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cymbula oculus)
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Patella oculus Born, 1778)
To Malacopics (Cymbula oculus (Born, 1778) South Africa, Western Cape, Cape Town, Sea Point, ex co...
To Malacopics (Cymbula oculus (Born,1778) South Africa, Western Cape, False Bay, Simonstad)
To Malacopics (Cymbula oculus (Born,1778) South Africa, Western Cape, Plettenberg, Keurboom lagoon)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Patella oculus USNM 1197353) (from synonym Patella oculus Born, 1778)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Patella oculus Born, 1778)
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