WoRMS taxon details
Heliacus areola areola (Gmelin, 1791)
585780 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:585780)
accepted
Subspecies
Heliacus (Heliacus) areola areola (Gmelin, 1791) · alternative representation
Torinia gyrus C. Bayer, 1948 · unaccepted
Trochus areola Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Trochus areola Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Heliacus areola areola (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=585780 on 2026-06-04
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Torinia gyrus C. Bayer, 1948) Bayer C. (1948) Catalogue of the Solariidae in the Rijksmuseum van Natuurlijke Historie. III. <i>Torinia</i>. <i>Zoologische Verhandelingen</i>, 4: 1–44., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/148939 [details]
original description (of Trochus areola Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
basis of record Bieler, R. (1993). Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca, Gastropoda). <em>Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg. NF.</em> 30: 1-376.
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original description (of Trochus areola Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
basis of record Bieler, R. (1993). Architectonicidae of the Indo-Pacific (Mollusca, Gastropoda). <em>Abhandlungen des Naturwissenschaftlichen Vereins in Hamburg. NF.</em> 30: 1-376.
page(s): 191 [details] Available for editors
[request]Other
additional source
Spencer H.G., Willan R.C., Marshall B.A. & Murray T.J. (2011). Checklist of the recent Mollusca recorded from the New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone. , available online at http://www.molluscs.otago.ac.nz [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
