MolluscaBase taxon details
Lutraria lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
140295 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140295)
accepted
Species
Chama magna da Costa, 1778 · unaccepted
Lutraria (Lutraria) lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758) · alternative representation
Lutraria elliptica Lamarck, 1801 · unaccepted (synonym)
Lutraria elliptica var. latior R. A. Philippi, 1844 · unaccepted
Lutraria lutraria var. panormensis De Gregorio, 1885 · unaccepted
Lutraria primipara Merklin & Nevesskaja, 1955 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Lutraria solida R. A. Philippi, 1851 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Lutraria vulgaris J. Fleming, 1828 · unaccepted
Mya lutraria Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (original combination)
- Forma Lutraria lutraria f. capensis Reeve, 1854 accepted as Lutraria capensis Reeve, 1854
- Variety Lutraria lutraria var. jeffreysi De Gregorio, 1885 accepted as Lutraria magna (da Costa, 1778) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Variety Lutraria lutraria var. panormensis De Gregorio, 1885 accepted as Lutraria lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Mya lutraria Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors 
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MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lutraria lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140295 on 2025-09-10
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original description
(of Lutraria elliptica Lamarck, 1801) Lamarck, J. B. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719
page(s): 120 [details]
original description (of Chama magna da Costa, 1778) Da Costa, E. M. (1778). <i>Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology</i>; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783
page(s): 230, pl. 17 fig. 4 [details]
original description (of Lutraria solida R. A. Philippi, 1851) Philippi, R. A. (1851-1852). Centuria quinta testaceorum novorum. <em>Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie.</em> 8(5): 74-80 [July 1851]; 8(6): 81-96 [August 1851]; 8(8): 123-126 [date not stated, 1851]; 9(2): 20-29 [March 1852]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16300581
page(s): 78 [details]
original description (of Lutraria vulgaris J. Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]
original description (of Mya lutraria Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Lutraria elliptica var. latior R. A. Philippi, 1844) Philippi, R. A. (1844). <i>Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2</i>. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062
page(s): 7 [details]
original description (of Lutraria lutraria var. panormensis De Gregorio, 1885) De Gregorio, A. (1884-1885). Studi su talune conchiglie mediterranee viventi e fossili con una rivista del genere <i>Vulsella</i>. <em>Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana.</em> 10(1-4): 36-64, pls 1-3 [10 August 1884]; 65-128, pls 4-5 [20 November 1884]; 10(9-19): 129-288 [30 April 1885]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38908552
page(s): p. 140-142. [details]
original description (of Lutraria primipara Merklin & Nevesskaja, 1955 †) Merklin, R.L.; Nevesskaja, L.A. (1955). Opredelitel' dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov miotsena Turkmenii i zapadnogo Kazakhstana [= An identification manual of bivalve mollusks of the Miocene of Turkmenia and western Kazakhstan]. <em>Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta.</em> 59: 1-115., available online at http://www.geokniga.org/books/10446
page(s): 85, pl. 24, fig. 1-4 [details] Available for editors [request]
context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Epibenthos and demersal fish monitoring data in function of wind energy development in the Belgian part of the North Sea. [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]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 120 [details]
original description (of Chama magna da Costa, 1778) Da Costa, E. M. (1778). <i>Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology</i>; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783
page(s): 230, pl. 17 fig. 4 [details]
original description (of Lutraria solida R. A. Philippi, 1851) Philippi, R. A. (1851-1852). Centuria quinta testaceorum novorum. <em>Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie.</em> 8(5): 74-80 [July 1851]; 8(6): 81-96 [August 1851]; 8(8): 123-126 [date not stated, 1851]; 9(2): 20-29 [March 1852]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16300581
page(s): 78 [details]
original description (of Lutraria vulgaris J. Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569 [details]
original description (of Mya lutraria Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. [The system of nature through the three kingdoms of nature, according to classes, orders, genera, species, with characters, differences, synonyms, places.]. <em>Impensis Direct. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm].</em> 1(10) [iii], 824 p., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Lutraria elliptica var. latior R. A. Philippi, 1844) Philippi, R. A. (1844). <i>Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium, quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 2</i>. Halle [Halis Saxorum]: Eduard Anton. iv + 303 pp., pls 13-28., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46936062
page(s): 7 [details]
original description (of Lutraria lutraria var. panormensis De Gregorio, 1885) De Gregorio, A. (1884-1885). Studi su talune conchiglie mediterranee viventi e fossili con una rivista del genere <i>Vulsella</i>. <em>Bullettino della Società Malacologica Italiana.</em> 10(1-4): 36-64, pls 1-3 [10 August 1884]; 65-128, pls 4-5 [20 November 1884]; 10(9-19): 129-288 [30 April 1885]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38908552
page(s): p. 140-142. [details]
original description (of Lutraria primipara Merklin & Nevesskaja, 1955 †) Merklin, R.L.; Nevesskaja, L.A. (1955). Opredelitel' dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov miotsena Turkmenii i zapadnogo Kazakhstana [= An identification manual of bivalve mollusks of the Miocene of Turkmenia and western Kazakhstan]. <em>Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta.</em> 59: 1-115., available online at http://www.geokniga.org/books/10446
page(s): 85, pl. 24, fig. 1-4 [details] Available for editors
[request]context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Epibenthos and demersal fish monitoring data in function of wind energy development in the Belgian part of the North Sea. [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]
additional source Hayward, P.J. & J.S. Ryland (Eds.). (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. <em>Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK.</em> 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Catalan | navalló | [details] |
| Dutch | ovale slijkschelpovale otterschelpotterschelpgewone otterschelp | [details] |
| English | otter shellcommon otter shell | [details] |
| French | lutrairelacogne | [details] |
| Modern Greek (1453-) | Πετσίνα | [details] |
| Spanish | arola | [details] |
To Malacopics (Lutraria lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758) France, Bretagne, Finisthre, Pentrez-Plage, on the beach at low tide, collected 1979-12-25, ex coll. F.J.A. Slieker .)
To Malacopics (Lutraria lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758) Netherlands, Friesland, Terschelling, beachmarker 11, beached, collected May 1995, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To Malacopics (Lutraria lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758) Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Rotterdam, Hoek van Holland, beached in shell grit, high tide line, collected 2016-01-24, ex coll. J. Trausel .)
To Malacopics (Lutraria lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758))
To ITIS
To Malacopics (Lutraria lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758) Netherlands, Friesland, Terschelling, beachmarker 11, beached, collected May 1995, ex coll. J. Trausel)
To Malacopics (Lutraria lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758) Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Rotterdam, Hoek van Holland, beached in shell grit, high tide line, collected 2016-01-24, ex coll. J. Trausel .)
To Malacopics (Lutraria lutraria (Linnaeus, 1758))
To ITIS
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