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Marcia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857
204823 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204823)
accepted
Genus
Venus pinguis Chemnitz, 1782 accepted as Marcia opima (Gmelin, 1791) (type by subsequent designation)
Chione (Marcia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 · unaccepted
Hemitapes Römer, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)
Levimarcia L. R. Cox, 1927 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Marcia (Levimarcia) L. R. Cox, 1927 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Marcia (Marcia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 · unaccepted > superseded rank
- Species Marcia apaturia (Römer, 1864)
- Species Marcia carneola (Lamarck, 1818)
- Species Marcia cordata (Forsskål, 1775)
- Species Marcia hiantina (Lamarck, 1818)
- Species Marcia japonica (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Marcia opima (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Marcia recens (Holten, 1802)
- Subgenus Marcia (Gomphomarcia) Kautsky, 1929 † accepted as Gomphomarcia Kautsky, 1929 † (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Marcia (Levimarcia) L. R. Cox, 1927 accepted as Marcia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 (unaccepted > junior objective synonym)
- Subgenus Marcia (Marcia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 accepted as Marcia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Marcia (Mercimonia) Dall, 1902 † accepted as Venerella Cossmann, 1886 † (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Marcia (Mercimonia) deleta (Deshayes, 1857) † accepted as Venerella deleta (Deshayes, 1857) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Marcia (Similivenus) Cossmann, 1910 † accepted as Similivenus Cossmann, 1910 † (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Marcia (Textivenus) Cossmann, 1886 † accepted as Katelysia Römer, 1857 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Marcia (Textivenus) texta (Lamarck, 1805) † accepted as Katelysia texta (Lamarck, 1805) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Marcia (Venerella) Cossmann, 1886 † accepted as Venerella Cossmann, 1886 † (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Marcia (Venerella) hermonvillensis (Deshayes, 1857) † accepted as Venerella hermonvillensis (Deshayes, 1857) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Marcia flammea (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Marcia cordata (Forsskål, 1775)
- Species Marcia marmorata (Lamarck, 1818) accepted as Marcia recens (Holten, 1802)
- Species Marcia rhytiphora E. Lamy, 1935 accepted as Katelysia rhytiphora (E. Lamy, 1935)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
(of Chione (Marcia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). <i>The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization</i>. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
page(s): 2: 423 [details]
page(s): 2: 423 [details]
Fossil range Eocene - Recent
Fossil range Eocene - Recent [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Marcia H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204823 on 2025-09-10
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original description
(of Hemitapes Römer, 1864) Römer E. (1864). Beschreibung neuer Arten von Venus. <em>Malakozoologische Blätter.</em> 11: 119-123., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16079996 [details]
original description (of Chione (Marcia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). <i>The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization</i>. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
page(s): 2: 423 [details]
original description (of Marcia (Levimarcia) L. R. Cox, 1927) Cox, L. R. (1927). Neogene and Quaternary Mollusca from the Zanzibar Protectorate. In: Anonymous (Eds.): Report on the Palaeontology of the Zanzibar Protectorate based mainly on the collection made by G. M. Stockley. Government of Zanzibar, Crown Agents for the Colonies, London, pp. 13-102, 171–180, pls. 3-19.
page(s): 52 [details] Available for editors
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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): 399 [details] Available for editors [request]
additional source Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 165 [details]
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]
original description (of Chione (Marcia) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1857) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1853-1858). <i>The genera of Recent Mollusca; arranged according to their organization</i>. London, van Voorst. Vol. 1: xl + 484 pp.; vol. 2: 661 pp.; vol. 3: 138 pls. [Published in parts: Vol. 1: i-xl (1858), 1-256 (1853), 257-484 (1854). Vol. 2: 1-92 (1854), 93-284 (1855), 285-412 (1856), 413-540 (1857), 541-661 (1858). Vol. 3: pl. 1-32 (1853), 33-72 (1954), 73-96 (1855), 97-112 (1856), 113-128 (1857), 129-138 (1858)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3782650
page(s): 2: 423 [details]
original description (of Marcia (Levimarcia) L. R. Cox, 1927) Cox, L. R. (1927). Neogene and Quaternary Mollusca from the Zanzibar Protectorate. In: Anonymous (Eds.): Report on the Palaeontology of the Zanzibar Protectorate based mainly on the collection made by G. M. Stockley. Government of Zanzibar, Crown Agents for the Colonies, London, pp. 13-102, 171–180, pls. 3-19.
page(s): 52 [details] Available for editors
[request]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): 399 [details] Available for editors
[request]additional source Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 165 [details]
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]
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Fossil range Eocene - Recent [details]
