WoRMS name details
Machaera A. Gould, 1841
526344 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:526344)
unaccepted > junior homonym (not Machaera Cuvier, 1832 [Pisces]; Neomachaera is a replacement name)
Genus
Solen costatus Say, 1822 accepted as Siliqua costata (Say, 1822) (type by subsequent designation)
- Species Machaera costata (Say, 1822) accepted as Siliqua costata (Say, 1822) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Machaera ovata J. E. Gray, 1843 accepted as Paphies australis (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > nomen nudum)
- Species Machaera sodalis A. Gould, 1861 accepted as Siliqua alta (Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829)
- Species Machaera nitida A. Gould, 1841 (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Gould, A.A. (1841). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Comprising the Mollusca, Crustacea, Annelida, and Radiata. <em>Published Agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge,.</em> xiii + 373 pp., 15 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76081
page(s): 32, [details]
page(s): 32, [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Machaera A. Gould, 1841. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=526344 on 2025-03-31
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Nomenclature
original description
Gould, A.A. (1841). Report on the Invertebrata of Massachusetts, Comprising the Mollusca, Crustacea, Annelida, and Radiata. <em>Published Agreeably to an Order of the Legislature, by the Commissioners on the Zoological and Botanical Survey of the State. Folsom, Wells, and Thurston, Cambridge,.</em> xiii + 373 pp., 15 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/76081
page(s): 32, [details]
page(s): 32, [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
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]
