WoRMS taxon details
Cellana radians (Gmelin, 1791)
325454 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:325454)
accepted
Species
Cellana radians perana Iredale, 1915 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Helcioniscus radians (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Lottia radians (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Nacella flexuosa F. W. Hutton, 1873 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Patella antipodum E. A. Smith, 1874 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Patella argentea Quoy & Gaimard, 1834 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Patella argyropsis R. P. Lesson, 1830 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Patella decora R. A. Philippi, 1849 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Patella earlii Reeve, 1855 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Patella flexuosa (F. W. Hutton, 1873) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Patella morio Noodt, 1819 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Patella novemradiata Fischer von Waldheim, 1807 · unaccepted (a junior synonym)
Patella olivacea F. W. Hutton, 1882 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Patella orichalcea R. A. Philippi, 1849 · unaccepted (presumed junior subjective synonym)
Patella pholidota R. P. Lesson, 1830 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Patella radians Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Patella radiatilis Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841 · unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Patella tenuilirata P. P. Carpenter, 1856 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Patella toreuma var. tenuilirata P. P. Carpenter, 1856 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Subspecies Cellana radians perana Iredale, 1915 accepted as Cellana radians (Gmelin, 1791) (junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Patella radians Gmelin, 1791) 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. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3720 [details]
page(s): 3720 [details]
Type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone
type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (origin: native - endemic) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cellana radians (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=325454 on 2025-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Nacella flexuosa F. W. Hutton, 1873) Hutton, F. W. (1873). Catalogue of the marine Mollusca of New Zealand, with diagnoses of the species. Didsbury, Wellington, xx + 116 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1352868
page(s): 45 [details]
original description (of Patella argyropsis R. P. Lesson, 1830) Lesson, R. P. (1830-1831). Chapitre XI. Mollusques, Annélides et Vers; par R.-P. Lesson. pp. 239-456 [15 Nov 1831], plates 1-16 [Mollusques 1-3, 09 Jan 1830; Mollusques 4-6, 01 May 1830; Mollusques 7, 26 May 1830; Mollusques 8-9, 25 Nov 1830; Mollusques 12, 07 Mar 1831; Mollusques 10, 25 Jul 1831; Mollusques 11, 13 Oct 1831; Mollusques 14, 16, 15 Nov 1831; Mollusques 13, 15, 22 Dec 1831]. In: Lesson R.P. 1830-1831. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, par M. Lesson. Tome Second. 1re Partie. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Editeur, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot.<br>link to<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663729" target="_blank">Text</a> link to <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38768370" target="_blank">Plates</a>. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663729
page(s): 419 [details]
original description (of Patella pholidota R. P. Lesson, 1830) Lesson, R. P. (1830-1831). Chapitre XI. Mollusques, Annélides et Vers; par R.-P. Lesson. pp. 239-456 [15 Nov 1831], plates 1-16 [Mollusques 1-3, 09 Jan 1830; Mollusques 4-6, 01 May 1830; Mollusques 7, 26 May 1830; Mollusques 8-9, 25 Nov 1830; Mollusques 12, 07 Mar 1831; Mollusques 10, 25 Jul 1831; Mollusques 11, 13 Oct 1831; Mollusques 14, 16, 15 Nov 1831; Mollusques 13, 15, 22 Dec 1831]. In: Lesson R.P. 1830-1831. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, par M. Lesson. Tome Second. 1re Partie. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Editeur, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot.<br>link to<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663729" target="_blank">Text</a> link to <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38768370" target="_blank">Plates</a>. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663729
page(s): 420 [details]
original description (of Patella argentea Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 345 [details]
original description (of Patella radiatilis Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) Hombron, J. B. & Jacquinot, C. H. (1841). Description de quelques mollusques provenant de la campagne de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, ser. 2, Zoologie.</em> 16: 62-65, 190-192., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35730481
page(s): 191 [details]
original description (of Patella decora R. A. Philippi, 1849) Philippi, R. A. (1849). Centuria altera testaceorum novorum. <em>Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie.</em> 5(7): 99-112 [January 1849]; 5(8): 123-128; 5(9): 129-144: 5(10): 145-150 [all March 1849]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16292293
page(s): 162 [details]
original description (of Patella orichalcea R. A. Philippi, 1849) Philippi, R. A. (1849). Centuria altera testaceorum novorum. <em>Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie.</em> 5(7): 99-112 [January 1849]; 5(8): 123-128; 5(9): 129-144: 5(10): 145-150 [all March 1849]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16292293
page(s): 163 [details]
original description (of Patella earlii Reeve, 1855) Reeve, L. A. (1854-1855). Monograph of the genus <i>Patella</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 8, pls 1-42 and unpaginated tex. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1, May 1855; pls 2-15, October 1854; pls 16-24, December 1854; pls 25-32, January 1855; pls 33-40, March 1855; pls 41-42, May 1855]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11120573
page(s): pl. 27, sp. 71 [details]
original description (of Patella morio Noodt, 1819) Noodt, J. (1819). Museum Boltenianum: Verzeichnis der von dem gestorbenen J. F. Bolten... hinterlassenen vortrefflichen Sammlung Conchylien, Mineralien und Kunstsachen die am 26. April d.J., Morgens um 10 Uhr öffentlich verkauft werden sollen durch den Makler J. Noodt. Conrad Müller, Hamburg, pp. vi + 156, 4 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59289439 [details]
original description (of Patella antipodum E. A. Smith, 1874) Smith, E. A. (1874). Mollusca. In: J. Richardson & J. E. Gray (eds), <i>The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843</i>. Vol. 2: 7 pp., 4 pls. E.W. Janson, London. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6963052
page(s): 4 [details]
original description (of Patella olivacea F. W. Hutton, 1882) Hutton, F.W. (1882). Additions to the molluscan fauna of New Zealand. <em>The New Zealand Journal of Science 1 (2): 69.</em> [details]
original description (of Cellana radians perana Iredale, 1915) Iredale, T. (1915). A commentary on Suter's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. <em>Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute.</em> 47: 417-497., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3343255
page(s): 432 [details]
original description (of Patella radians Gmelin, 1791) 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. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3720 [details]
original description (of Patella novemradiata Fischer von Waldheim, 1807) Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1807). <i>Museum Demidoff, ou, Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l'art: données à l'Université Impériale de Moscou par son excellence Monsieur Paul de Demidoff. Tome III. Végétaux et Animaux</i>. Moscow: Imprimerie de Université Impériale de Moscou. 300 pp, 6 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58562487
page(s): 119. [details]
original description (of Patella toreuma var. tenuilirata P. P. Carpenter, 1856) Carpenter, P. P. (1856). Description of (supposed) new species and varieties of shells, from the Californian and West Mexican coasts principally in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1855): 228–235., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30748147
page(s): 233; note: As Patella ?toreuma var. tenuilirata [details]
page(s): 45 [details]
original description (of Patella argyropsis R. P. Lesson, 1830) Lesson, R. P. (1830-1831). Chapitre XI. Mollusques, Annélides et Vers; par R.-P. Lesson. pp. 239-456 [15 Nov 1831], plates 1-16 [Mollusques 1-3, 09 Jan 1830; Mollusques 4-6, 01 May 1830; Mollusques 7, 26 May 1830; Mollusques 8-9, 25 Nov 1830; Mollusques 12, 07 Mar 1831; Mollusques 10, 25 Jul 1831; Mollusques 11, 13 Oct 1831; Mollusques 14, 16, 15 Nov 1831; Mollusques 13, 15, 22 Dec 1831]. In: Lesson R.P. 1830-1831. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, par M. Lesson. Tome Second. 1re Partie. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Editeur, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot.<br>link to<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663729" target="_blank">Text</a> link to <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38768370" target="_blank">Plates</a>. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663729
page(s): 419 [details]
original description (of Patella pholidota R. P. Lesson, 1830) Lesson, R. P. (1830-1831). Chapitre XI. Mollusques, Annélides et Vers; par R.-P. Lesson. pp. 239-456 [15 Nov 1831], plates 1-16 [Mollusques 1-3, 09 Jan 1830; Mollusques 4-6, 01 May 1830; Mollusques 7, 26 May 1830; Mollusques 8-9, 25 Nov 1830; Mollusques 12, 07 Mar 1831; Mollusques 10, 25 Jul 1831; Mollusques 11, 13 Oct 1831; Mollusques 14, 16, 15 Nov 1831; Mollusques 13, 15, 22 Dec 1831]. In: Lesson R.P. 1830-1831. Voyage autour du monde, exécuté par ordre du Roi, sur la corvette de Sa Majesté, La Coquille, pendant les années 1822, 1823, 1824 et 1825. Zoologie, par M. Lesson. Tome Second. 1re Partie. Paris, Arthus Bertrand, Libraire-Editeur, Imprimerie de Firmin Didot.<br>link to<a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663729" target="_blank">Text</a> link to <a href="https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38768370" target="_blank">Plates</a>. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38663729
page(s): 420 [details]
original description (of Patella argentea Quoy & Gaimard, 1834) Quoy, J. R. C.; Gaimard, J. P. (1832-1835). <i>Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe: exécuté par ordre du roi, pendant les années 1826-1827-1828-1829, sous le commandement de M. J. Dumont d'Urville. Zoologie.</i> 1: i-l, 1-264; 2(1): 1-321 [1832]; 2(2): 321-686 [1833]; 3(1): 1-366 [1834]; 3(2): 367-954 [1835]; 4 [1833]; Atlas (Mollusques): pls 1-93 [1833] ...etc. In: Dumont d'Urville, J.; 1834, Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe. Paris, J. Tastu, Éditeur-Imprimeur., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/bhl.title.2132
page(s): 345 [details]
original description (of Patella radiatilis Hombron & Jacquinot, 1841) Hombron, J. B. & Jacquinot, C. H. (1841). Description de quelques mollusques provenant de la campagne de l'Astrolabe et de la Zélée. <em>Annales des Sciences Naturelles, ser. 2, Zoologie.</em> 16: 62-65, 190-192., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35730481
page(s): 191 [details]
original description (of Patella decora R. A. Philippi, 1849) Philippi, R. A. (1849). Centuria altera testaceorum novorum. <em>Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie.</em> 5(7): 99-112 [January 1849]; 5(8): 123-128; 5(9): 129-144: 5(10): 145-150 [all March 1849]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16292293
page(s): 162 [details]
original description (of Patella orichalcea R. A. Philippi, 1849) Philippi, R. A. (1849). Centuria altera testaceorum novorum. <em>Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie.</em> 5(7): 99-112 [January 1849]; 5(8): 123-128; 5(9): 129-144: 5(10): 145-150 [all March 1849]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16292293
page(s): 163 [details]
original description (of Patella earlii Reeve, 1855) Reeve, L. A. (1854-1855). Monograph of the genus <i>Patella</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 8, pls 1-42 and unpaginated tex. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1, May 1855; pls 2-15, October 1854; pls 16-24, December 1854; pls 25-32, January 1855; pls 33-40, March 1855; pls 41-42, May 1855]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11120573
page(s): pl. 27, sp. 71 [details]
original description (of Patella morio Noodt, 1819) Noodt, J. (1819). Museum Boltenianum: Verzeichnis der von dem gestorbenen J. F. Bolten... hinterlassenen vortrefflichen Sammlung Conchylien, Mineralien und Kunstsachen die am 26. April d.J., Morgens um 10 Uhr öffentlich verkauft werden sollen durch den Makler J. Noodt. Conrad Müller, Hamburg, pp. vi + 156, 4 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59289439 [details]
original description (of Patella antipodum E. A. Smith, 1874) Smith, E. A. (1874). Mollusca. In: J. Richardson & J. E. Gray (eds), <i>The zoology of the voyage of the H.M.S. Erebus & Terror, under the command of Captain Sir James Clark Ross, R.N., F.R.S., during the years 1839 to 1843</i>. Vol. 2: 7 pp., 4 pls. E.W. Janson, London. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6963052
page(s): 4 [details]
original description (of Patella olivacea F. W. Hutton, 1882) Hutton, F.W. (1882). Additions to the molluscan fauna of New Zealand. <em>The New Zealand Journal of Science 1 (2): 69.</em> [details]
original description (of Cellana radians perana Iredale, 1915) Iredale, T. (1915). A commentary on Suter's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. <em>Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute.</em> 47: 417-497., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3343255
page(s): 432 [details]
original description (of Patella radians Gmelin, 1791) 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. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3720 [details]
original description (of Patella novemradiata Fischer von Waldheim, 1807) Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1807). <i>Museum Demidoff, ou, Catalogue systématique et raisonné des curiosités de la nature et de l'art: données à l'Université Impériale de Moscou par son excellence Monsieur Paul de Demidoff. Tome III. Végétaux et Animaux</i>. Moscow: Imprimerie de Université Impériale de Moscou. 300 pp, 6 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58562487
page(s): 119. [details]
original description (of Patella toreuma var. tenuilirata P. P. Carpenter, 1856) Carpenter, P. P. (1856). Description of (supposed) new species and varieties of shells, from the Californian and West Mexican coasts principally in the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1855): 228–235., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30748147
page(s): 233; note: As Patella ?toreuma var. tenuilirata [details]
Other
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Nakano T. & Ozawa T. (2007). Worldwide phylogeography of limpets of the order Patellogastropoda: molecular, morphological and paleontological evidence. <i>Journal of Molluscan Studies</i> 73(1): 79–99. [details] Available for editors 
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additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
additional source Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
[request]additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. <em>in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia.</em> Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
additional source Maxwell, P. A. (2009). Cenozoic Mollusca. Pp 232-254 in Gordon, D. P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cellana radians)
To GenBank (49 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To Malacopics (Cellana radians (Gmelin, 1791) New Zealand, Wellington, Hutt Co., Eastbourne, inter...
To MNHN Type collection (IM 2000-4973) (from synonym Patella pholidota R. P. Lesson, 1830)
To NHMUK collection (Patella radians Gmelin, 1791; SYNTYPES; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3506107) (from synonym Patella radians Gmelin, 1791)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cellana radians)
To GenBank (49 nucleotides; 37 proteins)
To Malacopics (Cellana radians (Gmelin, 1791) New Zealand, Wellington, Hutt Co., Eastbourne, inter...
To MNHN Type collection (IM 2000-4973) (from synonym Patella pholidota R. P. Lesson, 1830)
To NHMUK collection (Patella radians Gmelin, 1791; SYNTYPES; NHMUK:ecatalogue:3506107) (from synonym Patella radians Gmelin, 1791)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
