AfReMaS taxon details
Meretrix Lamarck, 1799
204011 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204011)
accepted
Genus
Venus meretrix Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Meretrix meretrix (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)
Cytherea Lamarck, 1805 · unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of...)
Invalid: junior homonym of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794 [Diptera] and Cytherea Röding, 1798
Venus (Cytherea) Lamarck, 1805 · unaccepted
- Species Meretrix meretrix (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Meretrix affinis (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Pitar affinis (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Meretrix arabica (Chemnitz, 1795) accepted as Circenita varia (Forsskål, 1775) (unavailable: published in a work rejected by ICZN direction 1)
- Species Meretrix florida (Lamarck, 1818) accepted as Callista florida (Lamarck, 1818)
- Species Meretrix hebraea (Lamarck, 1818) accepted as Pitar hebraeus (Lamarck, 1818)
- Species Meretrix lentiginosa (Chemnitz, 1795) accepted as Circenita varia (Forsskål, 1775) (unavailable name: published in a work rejected by ICZN direction 1)
- Species Meretrix lineolata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1854) accepted as Pitar lineolatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1854)
- Species Meretrix reeveana (Hildago, 1903) accepted as Pitar laetus (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Meretrix striata (Gray, 1838) accepted as Pitar striatus (Gray, 1838)
- Species Meretrix umbonella (Lamarck, 1818) accepted as Callista umbonella (Lamarck, 1818)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 85 [details]
page(s): 85 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Meretrix Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204011 on 2025-03-28
Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025). African Register of Marine Species. Meretrix Lamarck, 1799. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204011 on 2025-03-28
Date
action
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2006-09-25 06:54:45Z
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Martinez, Olga
original description
Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. <em>Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris.</em> 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 85 [details]
original description (of Cytherea Lamarck, 1805) Lamarck [J.B.P.A. de]. (1805). Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 7: 53-62, 130-139 [December 1805]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48531894
page(s): 132 [details]
page(s): 85 [details]
original description (of Cytherea Lamarck, 1805) Lamarck [J.B.P.A. de]. (1805). Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 7: 53-62, 130-139 [December 1805]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48531894
page(s): 132 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meretrix)
To Genbank
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meretrix)
To Genbank
Unreviewed
Image from synonym
