Genus Crepidula Lamarck, 1799

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• Crypta Humphrey, G. 1797. Museum Calonnianum : specification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history collected by M. de Calonne in France and lately his property : consisting of an assemblage of the most beautiful and rare subjects in entomology, conchology, ornithology, mineralogy, &c. London : E. Bibl. Radcl. viii, 84 pp. [Bouchet lists the author and year as Crypta Gray, 1847?; invalid see Hoagland (1977: table 4, p. 399); not available from Humphrey, 1797 (published in a rejected work: ICZN Direction 32), nor from Swainson (1840: 20), who merely presented Humphrey's classification without using it (Art. 11.5.2); junior homonym of Crypta Stephens, 1830 (Coleoptera)].

  Type species:

   Patella fornicata by monotypy.
• Galerus Humphrey, G. 1797. Museum Calonnianum : specification of the various articles which compose the magnificent museum of natural history collected by M. de Calonne in France and lately his property : consisting of an assemblage of the most beautiful and rare subjects in entomology, conchology, ornithology, mineralogy, &c. London : E. Bibl. Radcl. viii, 84 pp. [Bouchet lists Galerus H. Adams & A. Adams, 1854? invalid see Hoagland (1977: table 4, p.399); name attributed by H. & A. Adams to Humprey [work placed on Official Index by Direction 32]].

  Type species:

   Patella chinensis Linnaeus, 1758 by original designation.
• Crepidula Lamarck, J.B.P.A. de Monet de 1799. Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification de coquilles, comprenent une réaction appropiée de charactères génériques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris 1: 63-91 [May 1799] [78] [see also Crepidulus].

  Type species:

   Patella fornicata Linnaeus, 1758 by monotypy.
• Sandalium Schumacher, C.F. 1817. Essai d'un Nouveau Systéme des Habitations des vers Testacés. Copenhagen : Schultz 287 pp., pls 1-22. [57, 183] [junior homonym; of Sandalium Retzius, 1788 [Coelenterata}].

  Type species:

   Sandalium pictum Schumacher, 1817 (replacement name for Patella porcellana Linnaeus) by subsequent designation, see Baker, H.B. 1923. Notes on the radula of the Neritidae. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia 75: 117-178, pl. 9-16 [152].
• Dispotaea Say, T 1824. An account of some of the fossil shells of Maryland. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 4(1): 124-134 [131] [Dispotea [Gray, 1842: 63, 90] is an incorrect subsequent spelling. Dyspotaea [Agassiz, 1847, Nomenclator Zoologicus. Index universalis: 127] was suggested to be a more correct spelling, but was not used as valid, and is not an available name].

  Type species:

   Calyptraea costata Say, 1820 by subsequent designation.
• Crepipatella Lesson, R.P. & Garnot, P. 1826-1830. Voyage autour du monde entrepris par ordre du government sur la corvette la Coquille pendant ... 1822-25. Zoologie. Paris : publisher unknown 2 vols & atlas pp. [Histoire naturelle des mollusques, annélides et vers recueillis pendant le... voyage de la Coquille, 2(1): 389; Bouchet lists the author and year as Lesson 1831?; Herrmannsen (1847: 322) suggested Crepidopatella as a more proper spelling, but he did not use it as valid and it is not an available name].

  Type species:

   Calyptraea adolphei Lesson, 1831 by subsequent designation, see Gray, J.E. 1847. A list of the Genera of Recent Mollusca, their Synonyms and Types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 15: 129-242 [157].
• Ianacus Mörch, O.A.L. 1852. Catalogus Conchyliorum quae reliquit d. Alphonso d'Aguirra & Gadea Comes de Yoldi, regis daniae cubiculariorum princeps, ordinis dannebrogici in prima classe & ordinis caroli Tertii eques. Part 1. Cephalophora. Copenhagen : Hafinae Vol. 1 170 pp. [146].

  Type species:

   Crepidula plana Say (see Wenz (1940: 905)) by original designation.
• Ergaea Adams, A. in Adams, H. & Adams, A. 1854. The genera of Recent Mollusca arranged according to their organization. London : John Van Voorst Vol. 1(Parts IX-XV) pp. 257-484, pls 33-60. [370] (as Crypta (Ergaea)).

  Type species:

   Calyptraea walshi Adam & Reeve, 1850 by original designation.
• Garnotia Gray, 1857 [Guide to the systematic distribution of Mollusca in the British Museum, 1: 117; Crepidula adunca Sowerby is frequently cited as the type species of Garnotia, but it was not an originally included species].

  Type species:

   Unknown adunca Sowerby by original designation.
• Noicia Gray, J.E. 1868. Notes on the specimens of Calyptraeidae in Mr. Cuming's collection. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1867: 726-748 [740].

  Type species:

   Noicia chinensis Gray, 1868 by monotypy.
• Bostrycapulus Olsson, A.A. & Harbison, A. 1953. Pliocene Mollusca of South Florida. Monographs of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 8: 1-457, 65 pls [279].

  Type species:

   Patella aculeata Gmelin, 1792 by original designation.

Generic Combinations

• Zeacrypta immersa (Angas, 1865). —
  Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [44]

Miscellaneous Literature Names

• Calerus Humprey, 1797 [attributed to Humprey, is an incorrect subsequent spelling].
• Sandaline Schumacher, 1817 [incorrect subsequent spelling]. —
  Blainville, H.M. de 1827. Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles. Strasbourg : Levrault Vol. 27 662 pp. [168]
• Jenacus Mörch, 1852 [incorrect subsequent spelling].
• Janacus Mörch, 1852 [incorrect subsequent spelling]. —
  Wenz, W. 1940. Handbuch der Paläozoologie. Band 6, Gastropoda. Berlin : Gebrüder Borntraeger Teil 4, Leiferung 6 pp. 721-960, several text figs. [905]

Distribution

Extra Distribution Information

Cosmopolitan

General References

Gray, J.E. 1842. Shells of Molluscous Animals. pp. 48-92 in Synopsis of the Contents of the British Museum. London : British Museum 44th Edn. [42]

Harris, G.F. 1897. Catalogue of Tertiary Mollusca in the Department of Geology, British Museum (Natural History). The Australasian Tertiary Mollusca. London : British Museum of Natural History Part 1 407 pp., 8 pls. [246]

Herrmannsen, A.N. 1847. Indicis Generum Malacozoorum Primordia. Cassellis : Theodor Fischer Vol. 1 637 pp. [342]

Hoagland, K.E. 1977. Systematic review of fossil and Recent Crepidula and discussion of evolution of the Calyptraeidae. Malacologia 16(2): 353-420 [399]

Iredale, T. & McMichael, D.F. 1962. A reference list of the marine Mollusca of New South Wales. Memoirs of the Australian Museum 11: 1–109 [44]

Swainson, W. 1840. A treatise on malacology or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. London : Longman, Brown, Green & Longmans 419 pp. [May 1840]

Vaught, K.C. 1989. A Classification of the Living Mollusca. Melbourne, Florida : American Malacologists Inc. xii, 195 pp. [32]

Wilson, B. 1993. Australian Marine Shells. Prosobranch Gastropods. Kallaroo, Western Australia : Odyssey Publishing Vol. 1 408 pp. [164]

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