WoRMS taxon details
Meretrix lusoria (Röding, 1798)
397139 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:397139)
accepted
Species
Cytheraea formosa G. B. Sowerby II, 1851 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cytherea graphica Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted
Cytherea lusoria (Chemnitz, 1782) · unaccepted (unavailable name, published in a...)
unavailable name, published in a work rejected by ICZN Direction 1; available from Röding, 1798
Meretrix virgulata Tomlin, 1923 · unaccepted
Venus lusoria Röding, 1798 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine
(of Venus lusoria Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 180 [details]
page(s): 180 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Meretrix lusoria (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397139 on 2025-03-31
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cytherea graphica Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 562 [details]
original description (of Meretrix virgulata Tomlin, 1923) Tomlin, J. R. le B. (1923). Some synonyms in the Veneridae. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 15: 310-313., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30347319
page(s): 313 [details]
original description (of Venus lusoria Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 180 [details]
original description (of Cytheraea formosa G. B. Sowerby II, 1851) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1851). Monograph of the genus <i>Cytheraea</i>. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 2 (12): 611-648, pl. 127-136. London, privately published. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43936974
page(s): 620, pl. 129, fig. 47 [details]
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]
page(s): 562 [details]
original description (of Meretrix virgulata Tomlin, 1923) Tomlin, J. R. le B. (1923). Some synonyms in the Veneridae. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 15: 310-313., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30347319
page(s): 313 [details]
original description (of Venus lusoria Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 180 [details]
original description (of Cytheraea formosa G. B. Sowerby II, 1851) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1851). Monograph of the genus <i>Cytheraea</i>. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 2 (12): 611-648, pl. 127-136. London, privately published. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43936974
page(s): 620, pl. 129, fig. 47 [details]
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]
Taxonomy
taxonomy source
Torii H., Sato S., Hamaguchi M., Henmi Y. & Yamashita H. (2010) The comparison of shell morphology and genetic relationship between <i>Meretrix lusoria</i> and <i>M. petechialis</i> in Japan and Korea. <i>Plankton and Benthos Research</i> 5(suppl.): 231-241. [details]
Other
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From regional or thematic species database
Introduced species vector dispersal United States part of the North Pacific Ocean (Marine Region) Aquaculture [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| Dutch | Japanse venusschelp | [details] |
| English | Japanese hard clamhamaguricommon oriental clamAsian hard clam | [details] |
| French | cythérée du Japon | [details] |
| German | Japanische VenusmuschelIndopazifische Venusmuschel | [details] |
| Japanese | ハマグリ | [details] |
To Barcode of Life (66 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Conchology (Meretrix lusoria ALBINISTIC)
To Conchology (Meretrix lusoria CHOCOLATE COLOR)
To Conchology (Meretrix lusoria)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meretrix lusoria)
To GenBank (670 nucleotides; 112 proteins)
To GenBank (670 nucleotides; 112 proteins) (from synonym Venus lusoria Röding, 1798)
To Malacopics (Meretrix lusoria (Röding, 1798) China, ex coll. G. van Roon)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To Conchology (Meretrix lusoria ALBINISTIC)
To Conchology (Meretrix lusoria CHOCOLATE COLOR)
To Conchology (Meretrix lusoria)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Meretrix lusoria)
To GenBank (670 nucleotides; 112 proteins)
To GenBank (670 nucleotides; 112 proteins) (from synonym Venus lusoria Röding, 1798)
To Malacopics (Meretrix lusoria (Röding, 1798) China, ex coll. G. van Roon)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
