WoRMS taxon details
Nacella Schumacher, 1817
196963 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:196963)
accepted
Genus
Nacella mytiloides Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Nacella mytilina (Helbling, 1779) (type by monotypy)
Nacella (Nacella) Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Nacella (Patinigera) Dall, 1905 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Patella (Nacella) Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Patella (Patinella) Dall, 1871 · unaccepted
Patinella Dall, 1871 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)
invalid: junior homonym of Patinella Gray, 1848; Patinigera is a replacement name
Patinigera Dall, 1905 · unaccepted (junior synonym)
- Species Nacella clypeater (R. P. Lesson, 1831)
- Species Nacella concinna (Strebel, 1908)
- Species Nacella deaurata (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Nacella delesserti (R. A. Philippi, 1849)
- Species Nacella edgari (A. W. B. Powell, 1957)
- Species Nacella flammea (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Nacella kerguelenensis (E. A. Smith, 1877)
- Species Nacella macquariensis Finlay, 1926
- Species Nacella magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Nacella mirim Simone, 2024
- Species Nacella mytilina (Helbling, 1779)
- Species Nacella terroris (Filhol, 1880)
- Species Nacella yaghana González-Wevar & T. Nakano, 2018
- Subgenus Nacella (Cellana) H. Adams, 1869 accepted as Cellana H. Adams, 1869 (original rank)
- Species Nacella (Cellana) cernica H. Adams, 1869 accepted as Cellana livescens (Reeve, 1855) (junior synonym)
- Subgenus Nacella (Nacella) Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Nacella Schumacher, 1817 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Nacella (Nacella) mytilina (Helbling, 1779) accepted as Nacella mytilina (Helbling, 1779) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Nacella (Patinigera) Dall, 1905 accepted as Nacella Schumacher, 1817 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Nacella (Patinigera) aena [sic!] accepted as Nacella deaurata (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Nacella (Patinigera) delesserti (R. A. Philippi, 1849) accepted as Nacella delesserti (R. A. Philippi, 1849) (subgenus not accepted)
- Species Nacella (Patinigera) edgari (A. W. B. Powell, 1957) accepted as Nacella edgari (A. W. B. Powell, 1957)
- Species Nacella (Patinigera) illuminata (A. Gould, 1846) accepted as Cellana strigilis (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Nacella (Patinigera) polaris (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) accepted as Nacella polaris (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) accepted as Nacella concinna (Strebel, 1908) (synonym)
- Species Nacella (Patinigera) terroris (Filhol, 1880) accepted as Nacella terroris (Filhol, 1880) (superseded combination)
- Species Nacella cernica H. Adams, 1869 accepted as Cellana livescens (Reeve, 1855) (junior synonym)
- Species Nacella chiloensis (Reeve, 1855) accepted as Nacella magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Nacella compressa Verco, 1906 accepted as Naccula compressa (Verco, 1906) (original combination)
- Species Nacella compressa Mabille & Rochebrune, 1889 accepted as Nacella mytilina (Helbling, 1779)
- Species Nacella crebristriata Verco, 1904 accepted as Asteracmea crebristriata (Verco, 1904) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Nacella delicatissima (Strebel, 1907) accepted as Nacella deaurata (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Nacella falklandica Preston, 1913 accepted as Nacella mytilina (Helbling, 1779) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Nacella flexuosa F. W. Hutton, 1873 accepted as Cellana radians (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Nacella fuegiensis (Reeve, 1855) accepted as Nacella deaurata (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Nacella mytiloides Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Nacella mytilina (Helbling, 1779)
- Species Nacella paleacea (A. Gould, 1853) accepted as Tectura paleacea (A. Gould, 1853)
- Species Nacella parva Angas, 1879 accepted as Naccula parva (Angas, 1879) (original combination)
- Species Nacella pellucida (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Patella pellucida Linnaeus, 1758 (unaccepted combination)
- Species Nacella peltoides P. P. Carpenter, 1864 accepted as Williamia peltoides (P. P. Carpenter, 1864) (original combination)
- Species Nacella polaris (Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) accepted as Nacella concinna (Strebel, 1908) (synonym)
- Species Nacella rosea Dall, 1872 accepted as Rhodopetala rosea (Dall, 1872) (basionym)
- Species Nacella stowae Verco, 1906 accepted as Asteracmea stowae (Verco, 1906) (original combination)
- Species Nacella strigatella Rochebrune & Mabille, 1885 accepted as Nacella deaurata (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Nacella subspiralis P. P. Carpenter, 1864 accepted as Williamia subspiralis (P. P. Carpenter, 1864) (original combination)
- Species Nacella subspiralis Wimmer, 1879 accepted as Williamia peltoides (P. P. Carpenter, 1864) (nat Carpenter, 1866. Williamia galapagana Dall, 1909 is a replacement name)
- Species Nacella tasmanica Tate & May, 1900 accepted as Propilidium tasmanicum (Pilsbry, 1895) (junior synonym)
- Species Nacella venosa (Reeve, 1854) accepted as Nacella magellanica (Gmelin, 1791)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 56, 179 [details]
page(s): 56, 179 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Nacella Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=196963 on 2025-06-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 56, 179 [details]
original description (of Patinigera Dall, 1905) Dall, W. H. (1905). Notes on some preoccupied names of mollusks. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 18(10): 113., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1817086
page(s): 113 [details]
original description (of Patella (Patinella) Dall, 1871) Dall, W. H. (1871). Preliminary sketch of a natural arrangement of the order Docoglossa. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 14: 49-54., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41795758
page(s): 53 [details]
basis of record Korobkov I.A. (1955). <i>Spravochnik i metodicheskoe rukovodstvo po tretichnym molliuskam. Briukhonogie.</i> [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs. Gastropoda]. <em>Leningrad: Gostoptekhizdat.</em> 795 pp.
page(s): 90 [details]
page(s): 56, 179 [details]
original description (of Patinigera Dall, 1905) Dall, W. H. (1905). Notes on some preoccupied names of mollusks. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 18(10): 113., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1817086
page(s): 113 [details]
original description (of Patella (Patinella) Dall, 1871) Dall, W. H. (1871). Preliminary sketch of a natural arrangement of the order Docoglossa. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 14: 49-54., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41795758
page(s): 53 [details]
basis of record Korobkov I.A. (1955). <i>Spravochnik i metodicheskoe rukovodstvo po tretichnym molliuskam. Briukhonogie.</i> [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs. Gastropoda]. <em>Leningrad: Gostoptekhizdat.</em> 795 pp.
page(s): 90 [details]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
González-Wevar C.A., Hüne M., Rosenfeld S., Nakano T., Saucède T., Spencer H. & Poulin E. (2018). Systematic revision of <i>Nacella</i> (Patellogastropoda: Nacellidae) based on a complete phylogeny of the genus, with the description of a new species from the southern tip of South America. <em>Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society.</em> DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zly067., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zly067 [details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Ramírez, R.; Paredes, C.; Arenas, J. (2003). Moluscos del Perú. <em>Revista de Biologia Tropical.</em> 51(supplement 3): 225-284. [details] Available for editors 
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additional source González-Wevar, C. A., Hüne, M., Segovia, N. I., Nakano, T., Spencer, H. G., Chown, S. L., Saucède, T., Johnstone, G., Mansilla, A. & Poulin, E. (2016). Following the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: patterns and processes in the biogeography of the limpet Nacella (Mollusca: Patellogastropoda) across the Southern Ocean. <em>Journal of Biogeography.</em> 44: 861–874. [details]
[request]additional source González-Wevar, C. A., Hüne, M., Segovia, N. I., Nakano, T., Spencer, H. G., Chown, S. L., Saucède, T., Johnstone, G., Mansilla, A. & Poulin, E. (2016). Following the Antarctic Circumpolar Current: patterns and processes in the biogeography of the limpet Nacella (Mollusca: Patellogastropoda) across the Southern Ocean. <em>Journal of Biogeography.</em> 44: 861–874. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
