Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Orthogastropoda > Subclass Heterobranchia > Infraclass "Lower Heterobranchia" > Superfamily Omalogyroidea > Family Omalogyridae > Genus Omalogyra

Omalogyra atomus (R. A. Philippi, 1841)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Omalogyra*	Jeffreys, 1859	accepted genus name
*Ammonicerina*	O. G. Costa, 1861	synonym
*Euomphalus (Omalogyra)*	Jeffreys, 1859	synonym
*Homalogyra*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym

Species group names

*Homalogyra atomus*	(R. A. Philippi, 1841)	synonym
*Homalogyra atomus var. fasciata*	Monterosato, 1877	synonym
*Homalogyra atomus var. vitrea*	Jeffreys, 1867	synonym
*Skenea nitidissima*	(J. Adams, 1800), sensu Forbes & Hanley, 1850	synonym
*Truncatella atomus*	R. A. Philippi, 1841	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: hulspiret snegl sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: atoomslak sources: de Bruyne, R.H. (1991). Schelpen van de Nederlandse kust [Shells of the Dutch coast]. Jeugdbondsuitgeverij/KNNV Uitgeverij: Utrecht, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-5107-017-9. III, 165 pp.

English: Aaom snail sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

German: Atomschnecke; Flache Zwergtellerschnecke

Literature

basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Rosenberg, G. 2004. Malacolog Version 3.3.2: Western Atlantic gastropod database. The Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia, PA.
additional source	Mayhew, R.; Cole, F. (1995). A taxonomic discussion and update of shell-bearing marine molluscs recorded from NW Atlantic North of Cape Cod (excluding Greenland), and Canadian Arctic Archipeligo. Of Sea and Shore. 18(2): 99-116.
additional source	Bullock, R. C. (1969). Omalogyra atomus (Philippi) from Maine. The Nautilus. 83(2): 70-71.
additional source	Fretter V. (1948). The structure and life history of some minute prosobranchs of rock pools: Skeneopsis planorbis (Fabricius), Omalogyra atomus (Philippi), Rissoella diaphana (Alder) and Rissoella opalina (Jeffreys). Journal of the Biological Assiociation of the U.K. 27: 597-632
additional source	Lozouet P. & Maestrati P. (1982). Nouvelles espèces de mollusques de l'Oligocène (Stampien) pour les bassins de Paris et d'Aquitaine. Archiv für Moluskenkunde. 112(1-6): 165-189.
additional source	Rolán E. (2005). Malacological Fauna From The Cape Verde Archipelago. Part 1, Polyplacophora and Gastropoda. ConchBooks. Hackenheim. ISBN 3-325319-73-2. 455 pp.
additional source	Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. 627 pp.
additional source	Ávila, S.P.; Cardigos, F.; Santos, R.S. (2004). D. João de Castro Bank, a shallow water hydrothermal-vent in the Azores: checklist of marine Molluscs. Arquipélago (Ciénc. Biol. Mar./Life Mar. Sci.) 21A: 75-80
additional source	Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974].
additional source	Kurabayashi, A.; Ueshima, R. (2000). Partial Mitochondrial Genome Organization of the Heterostrophan Gastropod Omalogyra atomus and its Systematic Significance. Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan). 59 (1): 7-18.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Omalogyra atomus (R. A. Philippi, 1841). Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140616