MolluscaBase taxon details
Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803)
141916 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141916)
accepted
Species
Circe (Gouldia) minima (Montagu, 1803) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Circe minima (Montagu, 1803) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Circe minima var. minor Marion, 1883 · unaccepted (synonym)
Circe striata Locard, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Circe undulata Locard, 1891 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cytherea apicalis R. A. Philippi, 1836 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cytherea minuta T. Brown, 1827 · unaccepted (synonym)
Cytherea sismondae Calcara, 1845 · unaccepted (synonym)
Cytherea trigona Nyst, 1835 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Gafrarium (Circe) minimum (Montagu, 1803) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Gafrarium minima (Montagu, 1803) · unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet
Gafrarium minimum (Montagu, 1803) · unaccepted
Gonilia mioglypta F. Nordsieck, 1972 † · unaccepted (synonym)
Gouldia minima var. citrina Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 · unaccepted (synonym)
Gouldia minima var. mirabilis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 · unaccepted (synonym)
Gouldia minima var. penicillata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 · unaccepted (synonym)
Gouldia minima var. rubicunda Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 · unaccepted (synonym)
Gouldia planata distantelamellata F. Nordsieck, 1969 · unaccepted
Venus cyrilli Scacchi, 1832 · unaccepted
Venus inquinata Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted
Venus minima Montagu, 1803 · unaccepted (original combination)
Venus pumila Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted
Venus triangularis Montagu, 1803 · unaccepted
- Variety Gouldia minima var. citrina Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 accepted as Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803) (synonym)
- Variety Gouldia minima var. mirabilis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 accepted as Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803) (synonym)
- Variety Gouldia minima var. penicillata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 accepted as Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803) (synonym)
- Variety Gouldia minima var. rubicunda Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 accepted as Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803) (synonym)
- Variety Gouldia minima var. triangularis Moazzo, 1939 accepted as Microcirce consternans P. G. Oliver & Zuschin, 2001
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Venus minima Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): vol. 1 p. 121 [details]
page(s): vol. 1 p. 121 [details]
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original description
(of Circe striata Locard, 1891) Locard, A. (1891). Les coquilles marines des côtes de France. <em>Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon.</em> 37: 1-385 [Published 31 October 1891; also published by Baillière as a book in 1892]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54577547
page(s): 302 [details]
original description (of Circe undulata Locard, 1891) Locard, A. (1891). Les coquilles marines des côtes de France. <em>Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon.</em> 37: 1-385 [Published 31 October 1891; also published by Baillière as a book in 1892]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54577547
page(s): 302 [details]
original description (of Venus cyrilli Scacchi, 1832) Scacchi, A. (1832). <i>Lettera di Arcangelo Scacchi dottore in medicina su vari testacei napolitani al Signor D. Carlo Tarentino prof. di storia naturale nel R. Liceo di Catanzaro</i> . Napoli, privately printed 6 pp. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35752111
page(s): 4-5 [details]
original description (of Venus inquinata Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879 [details]
original description (of Venus minima Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): vol. 1 p. 121 [details]
original description (of Venus pumila Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879 [details]
original description (of Venus triangularis Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694 [details]
original description (of Cytherea apicalis R. A. Philippi, 1836) Philippi, R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. xiv + 267 p., pls. 1-12. Sumptibus Simonis Schroppii et Sociorum. Berolini [Berlin]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46935803
page(s): 40-41; pl. 4 fig. 5 [details]
original description (of Cytherea minuta T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868 [details]
original description (of Cytherea sismondae Calcara, 1845) Calcara, P. (1845). Cenno sui molluschi viventi e fossili della Sicilia da servire da supplimento ed insieme di critiche osservazioni all'opera di R.A. Philippi. Stamperia Reale, Palermo, 65 pp., pl. 1-4. <em>.</em> , available online at http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN640206182
page(s): 13-14 [details]
original description (of Circe minima var. minor Marion, 1883) Marion, A.-F. (1883). Considérations sur les faunes profondes de la Méditerranée d'après les dragages opérés au large des côtes méridionales de France. <em>Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille, Zoologie.</em> 1(Memoire 2): 1-50., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53910108 [details]
original description (of Gouldia minima var. citrina Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 340 [details]
original description (of Gouldia minima var. mirabilis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 339 [details]
original description (of Gouldia minima var. penicillata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 339 [details]
original description (of Gouldia minima var. rubicunda Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 340 [details]
original description (of Gonilia mioglypta F. Nordsieck, 1972 †) Nordsieck, F. (1972). <i>Die Miozäne Molluskenfauna von Miste-Winterswijk NL (Hemmoor)</i>. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag. 187 pp., 33 pls.
page(s): 31, pl. 5 fig. 33 [details]
original description (of Gouldia planata distantelamellata F. Nordsieck, 1969) Nordsieck, F. (1969). Die europäischen Meeresmuscheln (Bivalvia). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, xiii + 256 pp. [details]
original description (of Cytherea trigona Nyst, 1835) Nyst, P. H. J. (1835). Recherches sur les coquilles fossiles de la province d'Anvers. Perichon, Bruxelles, 36 pp. + 5 pls., available online at https://books.google.gr/books?id=R5JJAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 10, pl. 2 fig. 39 [details]
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. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). <i>Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola</i>. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 878-879 [details]
page(s): 302 [details]
original description (of Circe undulata Locard, 1891) Locard, A. (1891). Les coquilles marines des côtes de France. <em>Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon.</em> 37: 1-385 [Published 31 October 1891; also published by Baillière as a book in 1892]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54577547
page(s): 302 [details]
original description (of Venus cyrilli Scacchi, 1832) Scacchi, A. (1832). <i>Lettera di Arcangelo Scacchi dottore in medicina su vari testacei napolitani al Signor D. Carlo Tarentino prof. di storia naturale nel R. Liceo di Catanzaro</i> . Napoli, privately printed 6 pp. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35752111
page(s): 4-5 [details]
original description (of Venus inquinata Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879 [details]
original description (of Venus minima Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): vol. 1 p. 121 [details]
original description (of Venus pumila Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879 [details]
original description (of Venus triangularis Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694 [details]
original description (of Cytherea apicalis R. A. Philippi, 1836) Philippi, R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. xiv + 267 p., pls. 1-12. Sumptibus Simonis Schroppii et Sociorum. Berolini [Berlin]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46935803
page(s): 40-41; pl. 4 fig. 5 [details]
original description (of Cytherea minuta T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868 [details]
original description (of Cytherea sismondae Calcara, 1845) Calcara, P. (1845). Cenno sui molluschi viventi e fossili della Sicilia da servire da supplimento ed insieme di critiche osservazioni all'opera di R.A. Philippi. Stamperia Reale, Palermo, 65 pp., pl. 1-4. <em>.</em> , available online at http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?PPN640206182
page(s): 13-14 [details]
original description (of Circe minima var. minor Marion, 1883) Marion, A.-F. (1883). Considérations sur les faunes profondes de la Méditerranée d'après les dragages opérés au large des côtes méridionales de France. <em>Annales du Musée d'Histoire Naturelle de Marseille, Zoologie.</em> 1(Memoire 2): 1-50., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/53910108 [details]
original description (of Gouldia minima var. citrina Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 340 [details]
original description (of Gouldia minima var. mirabilis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 339 [details]
original description (of Gouldia minima var. penicillata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 339 [details]
original description (of Gouldia minima var. rubicunda Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 340 [details]
original description (of Gonilia mioglypta F. Nordsieck, 1972 †) Nordsieck, F. (1972). <i>Die Miozäne Molluskenfauna von Miste-Winterswijk NL (Hemmoor)</i>. Stuttgart: Gustav Fischer Verlag. 187 pp., 33 pls.
page(s): 31, pl. 5 fig. 33 [details]
original description (of Gouldia planata distantelamellata F. Nordsieck, 1969) Nordsieck, F. (1969). Die europäischen Meeresmuscheln (Bivalvia). Vom Eismeer bis Kapverden, Mittelmeer und Schwarzes Meer. Gustav Fischer, Stuttgart, xiii + 256 pp. [details]
original description (of Cytherea trigona Nyst, 1835) Nyst, P. H. J. (1835). Recherches sur les coquilles fossiles de la province d'Anvers. Perichon, Bruxelles, 36 pp. + 5 pls., available online at https://books.google.gr/books?id=R5JJAAAAYAAJ
page(s): 10, pl. 2 fig. 39 [details]
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. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]
additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). <i>Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola</i>. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 878-879 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
Unreviewed
Habitat Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
To Conchology (Gouldia minima)
To GB Mollusca Types (Venus minima Montagu, 1803; Syntype(s); EXEMS Moll3847) (from synonym Venus minima Montagu, 1803)
To GB Mollusca Types (Venus triangularis Montagu, 1803; Syntype(s); EXEMS Moll3848) (from synonym Venus triangularis Montagu, 1803)
To Malacopics (Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803) Greece, Voreio Aigaio, Lesvos, Molivos, at 2 m depth, collected August 1998, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To Malacopics (Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803))
To ITIS
To GB Mollusca Types (Venus minima Montagu, 1803; Syntype(s); EXEMS Moll3847) (from synonym Venus minima Montagu, 1803)
To GB Mollusca Types (Venus triangularis Montagu, 1803; Syntype(s); EXEMS Moll3848) (from synonym Venus triangularis Montagu, 1803)
To Malacopics (Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803) Greece, Voreio Aigaio, Lesvos, Molivos, at 2 m depth, collected August 1998, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To Malacopics (Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803))
To ITIS
