MolluscaBase taxon details
Mercenaria stimpsoni (A. Gould, 1861)
507774 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507774)
accepted
Species
Venus (Mercenaria) stimpsoni A. Gould, 1861 · unaccepted (basionym)
Venus stimpsoni A. Gould, 1861 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Venus (Mercenaria) stimpsoni A. Gould, 1861) Gould, A. A. (1861). Description of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 7: 385-389 [January 1861], 401-409 [February 1861]; 8: 14-32 [March 1861], 33-40 [April 1861]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9492428
page(s): Vol. 8: 30. [details]
page(s): Vol. 8: 30. [details]
Type locality contained in Hakodate Bay
type locality contained in Hakodate Bay [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mercenaria stimpsoni (A. Gould, 1861). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507774 on 2025-09-10
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(of Venus (Mercenaria) stimpsoni A. Gould, 1861) Gould, A. A. (1861). Description of new shells collected by the United States North Pacific Exploring Expedition. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 7: 385-389 [January 1861], 401-409 [February 1861]; 8: 14-32 [March 1861], 33-40 [April 1861]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9492428
page(s): Vol. 8: 30. [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]
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): 155 [details]
additional source Ubukata, T. (2000). Theoretical Morphology of Composite Prismatic, Fibrous Prismatic and Foliated Shell Microstructures in Bivalves. <em>Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan).</em> 59 (4): 297-305. [details] Available for editors
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page(s): Vol. 8: 30. [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]
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): 155 [details]
additional source Ubukata, T. (2000). Theoretical Morphology of Composite Prismatic, Fibrous Prismatic and Foliated Shell Microstructures in Bivalves. <em>Venus (Journal of the Malacological Society of Japan).</em> 59 (4): 297-305. [details] Available for editors
[request]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Malacopics (Mercenaria stimpsoni (Gould, 1861) Japan, Hokkaidô, Hidaka, Mombetsu, at 3.6-9 m depth, collected 1982, ex coll. W.J.H. Onverwagt)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Venus (Mercenaria) stimpsoni Holotype USNM 1592) (from synonym Venus stimpsoni A. Gould, 1861)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Venus (Mercenaria) stimpsoni Holotype USNM 1592) (from synonym Venus stimpsoni A. Gould, 1861)
Unreviewed
