MolluscaBase - Aequipecten muscosus (W. Wood, 1828)

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Aequipecten muscosus (W. Wood, 1828)

AphiaID

420761 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420761)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Lindapecten muscosus (W. Wood, 1828)

Rank

Species

Parent

Aequipecten P. Fischer, 1886

Original name

Ostrea muscosa W. Wood, 1828

Synonymised names

Ostrea muscosa W. Wood, 1828 · unaccepted (original combination)

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Subspecies Aequipecten muscosus acanthodes (Dall, 1925) accepted as Lindapecten exasperatus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1842)
Subspecies Aequipecten muscosus muscosus (W. Wood, 1828) accepted as Lindapecten muscosus (W. Wood, 1828)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Ostrea muscosa W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Aequipecten muscosus (W. Wood, 1828). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420761 on 2025-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2009-10-06 12:38:14Z

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db_admin

2011-10-19 22:47:22Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

2018-03-27 07:21:03Z

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Gofas, Serge

2022-02-12 15:41:35Z

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Gofas, Serge

Licensing

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original description (of Ostrea muscosa W. Wood, 1828) Wood, W. (1828). <i>Supplement to the Index Testaceologicus; or A catalogue of shells, British and foreign</i>. Richard Taylor, London. iv [+1] + 59 pp., plates 1-8. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22991199 [details]

context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]

basis of record Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] Available for editors