Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Gastropoda > Subclass Patellogastropoda > Superfamily Patelloidea > Family Patellidae > Genus Patella

Patella tenuis Gmelin, 1791

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Patella*	Linnaeus, 1758	accepted genus name
*Ansates*	G. B. Sowerby II, 1839	synonym
*Costatopatella*	Pallary, 1912	synonym
*Helcion (Ansates)*	G. B. Sowerby II, 1839	synonym
*Patellastra*	Monterosato, 1884	synonym
*Patina*	Leach, 1847	synonym

Species group names

*Patella tenuissima*	W. Turton, 1802	synonym

Literature

original description	Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6.
additional source	Christiaens, J. (1974). Révision du genre Patella (Mollusca, Gastropoda). Bulletin du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. 3e serie, no. 182, Zoologie 121: 1305-1392 [published 30 April 1974].
status source	Titselaar F.F.L.M. (2019). Notes on the nomenclature of the Macaronesian Patella candei d'Orbigbny complex, with special reference to Patella ordinaria Mabille and P. crenata Gmelin (Patellofastropoda, Patellidae). Basteria. 83(4-6): 158-165.

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Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Patella tenuis Gmelin, 1791. 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:851901