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Venerella Cossmann, 1886 †
1547172 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1547172)
accepted
Genus
Venerupis hermonvillensis Deshayes, 1857 † accepted as Venerella hermonvillensis (Deshayes, 1857) † (type by subsequent designation)
Marcia (Mercimonia) Dall, 1902 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Marcia (Venerella) Cossmann, 1886 † · unaccepted > superseded rank
Venus (Venerella) Cossmann, 1886 † · unaccepted (unaccepted rank)
- Species Venerella anceps (Deshayes, 1857) †
- Species Venerella bernayi (Cossmann, 1886) †
- Species Venerella bouryi (Cossmann, 1892) †
- Species Venerella cythereaeformis (Deshayes, 1857) †
- Species Venerella deleta (Deshayes, 1857) †
- Species Venerella delicatula (Deshayes, 1857) †
- Species Venerella fallaciosa (Deshayes, 1857) †
- Species Venerella geslini (Deshayes, 1857) †
- Species Venerella hermonvillensis (Deshayes, 1857) †
- Species Venerella inopinata (Deshayes, 1857) †
- Species Venerella puellata (Lamarck, 1805) †
- Species Venerella quadrata (Deshayes, 1857) †
- Species Venerella secunda (Deshayes, 1857) †
- Species Venerella striatula (Deshayes, 1824) †
- Species Venerella turgidula (Deshayes, 1825) †
- Subgenus Venerella (Compsomyax) R. B. Stewart, 1930 † accepted as Compsomyax R. B. Stewart, 1930 (original rank)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
feminine
(of Venus (Venerella) Cossmann, 1886 †) Cossmann M. (1886). Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Eocène des environs de Paris. <em>Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique.</em> 21: 17-186 (reprint paginated 3-174), pl. 1-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5635834
page(s): 21: 105 [details]
page(s): 21: 105 [details]
Fossil range Eocene
Fossil range Eocene [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Venerella Cossmann, 1886 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1547172 on 2025-09-10
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original description
(of Venus (Venerella) Cossmann, 1886 †) Cossmann M. (1886). Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Eocène des environs de Paris. <em>Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique.</em> 21: 17-186 (reprint paginated 3-174), pl. 1-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5635834
page(s): 21: 105 [details]
original description (of Marcia (Mercimonia) Dall, 1902 †) Dall, W. H. (1902). Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American Recent species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 26 (1312): 335-412., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7612547
page(s): 361 [details]
basis of record Nevesskaja, L. A.; Popov, S. V.; Goncharova, I. A.; Guzhov, A. V.; Yanin, B. T.; Polubotko, I. V.; Biakov, A. S.; Gavrilova, V. A. (2013). Phanerozoic Bivalvia of Russia and surrounding countries [Двустворчатые моллюски России и сопредельных стран в фанерозое]. <em>Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk / Transactions of the Paleontological Institute.</em> 294: 1-524.
page(s): 401 [details] Available for editors
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identification resource Goncharova I.A. (1986). The system and history of the tapetines (Bivalvia, Veneridae, Tapetinae) of the Neogene seas of West Eurasia. <em>Paleogene-Neogene bivalves of the Far East and Eastern Paratethys: A collection of scientific papers [= Палеоген-неогеновые двустворчатые моллюски Дальнего Востока и Восточного Паратетиса: Сборник научных трудов].</em> pp. 75-100. [details]
page(s): 21: 105 [details]
original description (of Marcia (Mercimonia) Dall, 1902 †) Dall, W. H. (1902). Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American Recent species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 26 (1312): 335-412., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7612547
page(s): 361 [details]
basis of record Nevesskaja, L. A.; Popov, S. V.; Goncharova, I. A.; Guzhov, A. V.; Yanin, B. T.; Polubotko, I. V.; Biakov, A. S.; Gavrilova, V. A. (2013). Phanerozoic Bivalvia of Russia and surrounding countries [Двустворчатые моллюски России и сопредельных стран в фанерозое]. <em>Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta Rossiyskoy Akademii Nauk / Transactions of the Paleontological Institute.</em> 294: 1-524.
page(s): 401 [details] Available for editors
[request]identification resource Goncharova I.A. (1986). The system and history of the tapetines (Bivalvia, Veneridae, Tapetinae) of the Neogene seas of West Eurasia. <em>Paleogene-Neogene bivalves of the Far East and Eastern Paratethys: A collection of scientific papers [= Палеоген-неогеновые двустворчатые моллюски Дальнего Востока и Восточного Паратетиса: Сборник научных трудов].</em> pp. 75-100. [details]
From editor or global species database
Fossil range Eocene [details]
