WoRMS taxon details
Lunarca brevifrons (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)
504446 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:504446)
accepted
Species
Arca (Argina) vespertina Mörch, 1861 · unaccepted
Arca (Barbatia) melanoderma Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Arca (Scapharca) brevifrons G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Arca (Scapharca) brevifrons var. bucaruana Sheldon & Maury, 1922 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Arca brevifrons G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 · unaccepted (original combination)
Arca melanoderma Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Arca vespertina Mörch, 1861 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Argina brevifrons (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) · unaccepted
marine
(of Arca brevifrons G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1834). [Characters of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1833: 16-22, 34-38 [17 May]; 52-56 [24 May]; 70-74 [20 September]; 82–85 [8 September]; 134-139. [16 April 1834]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859474
page(s): 22 [details]
page(s): 22 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lunarca brevifrons (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504446 on 2025-07-04
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Arca brevifrons G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1834). [Characters of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1833: 16-22, 34-38 [17 May]; 52-56 [24 May]; 70-74 [20 September]; 82–85 [8 September]; 134-139. [16 April 1834]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859474
page(s): 22 [details]
original description (of Arca (Scapharca) brevifrons var. bucaruana Sheldon & Maury, 1922) Maury, C. J. (1922). The Recent Arcas of the Panamic province. <em>Palaeontographica Americana.</em> 1(4): 163-208, pl. 1-3 [29-31 of volume]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28433047
page(s): 200, pl. 2, fig. 16, pl. 3, fig. 10; note: as Arca (subgenus Scapharca, section Argina) brevifrons var. bucaruana [details]
original description (of Arca (Argina) vespertina Mörch, 1861) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1860-1861). Beiträge zur Molluskenfauna Central-Amerika´s. <em>Malakozoologische Blätter.</em> 7: 170-213 [Stated dates: Dec. 1860 on pp. 161, 177; Jan. 1861 on p. 193, 209, 225]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15919729
page(s): 204 [details]
original description (of Arca (Barbatia) melanoderma Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932) Pilsbry, H. A. & Lowe, H. N. (1932). West Mexican and Central American mollusks collected by H. N. Lowe, 1929–1931. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 84: 33-144, 17 pls., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4064126.pdf
page(s): 105 [details] Available for editors
[request]
basis of record 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]
page(s): 22 [details]
original description (of Arca (Scapharca) brevifrons var. bucaruana Sheldon & Maury, 1922) Maury, C. J. (1922). The Recent Arcas of the Panamic province. <em>Palaeontographica Americana.</em> 1(4): 163-208, pl. 1-3 [29-31 of volume]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/28433047
page(s): 200, pl. 2, fig. 16, pl. 3, fig. 10; note: as Arca (subgenus Scapharca, section Argina) brevifrons var. bucaruana [details]
original description (of Arca (Argina) vespertina Mörch, 1861) Mörch [Mørch], O. A. L. (1860-1861). Beiträge zur Molluskenfauna Central-Amerika´s. <em>Malakozoologische Blätter.</em> 7: 170-213 [Stated dates: Dec. 1860 on pp. 161, 177; Jan. 1861 on p. 193, 209, 225]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15919729
page(s): 204 [details]
original description (of Arca (Barbatia) melanoderma Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932) Pilsbry, H. A. & Lowe, H. N. (1932). West Mexican and Central American mollusks collected by H. N. Lowe, 1929–1931. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 84: 33-144, 17 pls., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4064126.pdf
page(s): 105 [details] Available for editors
[request]basis of record 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]
Taxonomy
redescription
Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To ANSP Malacology Collection (holotype of Arca melanoderma. Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia 84: 105-106, pl. 14, figs. 11, 12, 13 - catalog no. 155627) (from synonym Arca melanoderma Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To Malacopics (Lunarca brevifrons (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Panama, Chiriqui, Golfo de Chiriquí, coll...
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To Malacopics (Lunarca brevifrons (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Panama, Chiriqui, Golfo de Chiriquí, coll...
