MolluscaBase name details
Gafrarium (Crista) Römer, 1857
511101 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:511101)
unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Subgenus
Venus pectinata Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Gafrarium pectinatum (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Venus (Crista) Römer, 1857) Römer E. (1857). Kritische Untersuchung der Arten des Mollusken-Geschlechts <i>Venus</i> bei Linné und Gmelin, mit Berücksichtigung der später beschriebenen Arten. Marburg. xiii + 135 p. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44076
page(s): 15. [details]
page(s): 15. [details]
Taxonomic remark Huber (2010: 721) treated Crista as valid subgenus of Gafrarium, but he overlooked that the type species of both names is...
Taxonomic remark Huber (2010: 721) treated Crista as valid subgenus of Gafrarium, but he overlooked that the type species of both names is the same species. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Gafrarium (Crista) Römer, 1857. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=511101 on 2025-09-11
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(of Venus (Crista) Römer, 1857) Römer E. (1857). Kritische Untersuchung der Arten des Mollusken-Geschlechts <i>Venus</i> bei Linné und Gmelin, mit Berücksichtigung der später beschriebenen Arten. Marburg. xiii + 135 p. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44076
page(s): 15. [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)
page(s): 383, 721. [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): 167 [details]
page(s): 15. [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)
page(s): 383, 721. [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): 167 [details]
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Taxonomic remark Huber (2010: 721) treated Crista as valid subgenus of Gafrarium, but he overlooked that the type species of both names is the same species. [details]
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