African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Cymbula oculus (Born, 1778)

WoRMS taxon details

Cymbula oculus (Born, 1778)

AphiaID

456661 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:456661)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Cymbula H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854

Original name

Patella oculus Born, 1778

Synonymised names

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)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Patella oculus Born, 1778) Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. 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]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cymbula oculus (Born, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=456661 on 2025-05-11

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-02-11 15:13:21Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2013-10-26 21:32:42Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Patella oculus Born, 1778) Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. 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). Conchology, or natural history of shells. 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. Journal of Molluscan Studies 73(1): 79–99. [details] Available for editors

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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. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 11(1): 138-156., available online at https://doi.org/10.1006/mpev.1998.0557 [details]