MolluscaBase - Saxidomus giganteus (Deshayes, 1839)

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Saxidomus giganteus (Deshayes, 1839)

AphiaID

367779 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367779)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (incorrect gender ending; Saxidomus is feminine)

Accepted name

Saxidomus gigantea (Deshayes, 1839)

Rank

Species

Parent

Saxidomus Conrad, 1837

Original name

Venerupis gigantea Deshayes, 1839

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Variety Saxidomus giganteus var. brevis Dall, 1916 accepted as Saxidomus gigantea (Deshayes, 1839) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

marine

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Saxidomus giganteus (Deshayes, 1839). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367779 on 2025-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2008-09-30 07:48:57Z

created

Decock, Wim

2010-09-23 11:55:17Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2011-10-23 16:41:52Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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basis of record 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 Stearns, R. E. C. (1904). Clam-orous crows. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 17(10): 120., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1726543 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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