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Cyrena arata Forbes, 1851 †
1559238 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1559238)
unaccepted > junior homonym
Species
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Forbes, E. (1851). On the Estuary Beds and the Oxford Clay at Loch Staffin, in Skye. <em>The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 7: 104-113., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34983763
page(s): 112, pl. 5, fig. 6a, b [details]
page(s): 112, pl. 5, fig. 6a, b [details]
Type locality contained in Great Britain
, Note Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye, Highland, United...
type locality contained in Great Britain [details]
From editor or global species database
Type locality Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye, Highland, United Kingdom; Great Estuarine Group, middle Jurassic [details]
Homonymy A secondary homonym of Astarte arata Conrad, 1840 according to Anderson & Cox (1948), who considered both species to belong...
Homonymy A secondary homonym of Astarte arata Conrad, 1840 according to Anderson & Cox (1948), who considered both species to belong in Astarte. They introduced Astarte hebridica as replacement name. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cyrena arata Forbes, 1851 †. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1559238 on 2025-09-10
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Forbes, E. (1851). On the Estuary Beds and the Oxford Clay at Loch Staffin, in Skye. <em>The Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London.</em> 7: 104-113., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/34983763
page(s): 112, pl. 5, fig. 6a, b [details]
page(s): 112, pl. 5, fig. 6a, b [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Homonymy A secondary homonym of Astarte arata Conrad, 1840 according to Anderson & Cox (1948), who considered both species to belong in Astarte. They introduced Astarte hebridica as replacement name. [details]Type locality Staffin Bay, Isle of Skye, Highland, United Kingdom; Great Estuarine Group, middle Jurassic [details]
