WoRMS taxon details
Dendostrea Swainson, 1835
415280 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415280)
accepted
Genus
Ostrea folium Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Dendostrea folium (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation)
Dendostraea · unaccepted (misspelling by Sowerby, 1839)
Dendrostraea · unaccepted (misspelling by Swainson, 1840)
Dendrostrea · unaccepted (misspelling by Woodward, 1851)
Ostrea (Dendostrea) Swainson, 1835 · unaccepted
Pretostrea Iredale, 1939 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
- Species Dendostrea cristata (Born, 1778)
- Species Dendostrea folium (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Dendostrea frons (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Dendostrea rosacea (Deshayes, 1836)
- Species Dendostrea sandvichensis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871)
- Species Dendostrea senegalensis (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Dendostrea trapezina (Lamarck, 1819)
- Species Dendostrea amara (P. P. Carpenter, 1863) accepted as Saccostrea palmula (P. P. Carpenter, 1857)
- Species Dendostrea crenulifera (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871) accepted as Dendostrea sandvichensis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871)
- Species Dendostrea glaucina (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Dendostrea cristata (Born, 1778)
- Species Dendostrea inaequivalvis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871) accepted as Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819)
- Species Dendostrea turbinata (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Saccostrea cuccullata (Born, 1778)
marine
Swainson, W. (1835). The elements of modern conchology. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 62 pp., available online at http://books.google.fr/books?id=0eW-_B8V6IQC
page(s): 39 [details]
page(s): 39 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dendostrea Swainson, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415280 on 2025-05-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Swainson, W. (1835). The elements of modern conchology. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 62 pp., available online at http://books.google.fr/books?id=0eW-_B8V6IQC
page(s): 39 [details]
original description (of Pretostrea Iredale, 1939) Iredale, T. (1939). Mollusca. Part I. <em>Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929.</em> 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-7., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49513635
page(s): 397 [details]
page(s): 39 [details]
original description (of Pretostrea Iredale, 1939) Iredale, T. (1939). Mollusca. Part I. <em>Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929.</em> 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-7., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49513635
page(s): 397 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]
Other
context source (MSBIAS)
MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Spelling Dendostrea is often corrected to Dendrostrea or Dendrostraea on etymological grounds, but as the original spelling is in prevailing use, and was used in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, it is maintained here. (Gary Rosenberg, 2 August 2011) [details]
