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Lamelliconcha circinata (Born, 1778)
545943 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:545943)
accepted
Species
Chione circinata (Born, 1778) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cytherea circinata (Born, 1778) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Cytherea guineensis Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted
Hysteroconcha circinata (Born, 1778) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Pitar circinatus (Born, 1778) · unaccepted
Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) circinata (Born, 1778) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Tellina senegalensis Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted
Venus circinata Born, 1778 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Venus guineensis Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted
Venus rubra Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted
- Subspecies Lamelliconcha circinata vinacea Olsson, 1961 accepted as Lamelliconcha vinacea Olsson, 1961 (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Venus circinata Born, 1778) Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]; (Kraus)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lamelliconcha circinata (Born, 1778). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=545943 on 2025-09-10
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original description
(of Tellina senegalensis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details] 
original description (of Venus circinata Born, 1778) Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]; (Kraus)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890 [details]
original description (of Venus guineensis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
original description (of Venus rubra Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
original description (of Cytherea guineensis Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 570 [details]
basis of record 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]
additional source Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2025). A taxonomic update for "Seashells of Southern Florida – Bivalves" (Mikkelsen and Bieler, 2007) with nomenclatural notes on other bivalve species. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 139(1): 1-27.
page(s): 14 [details] Available for editors
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status source Alvarez, M. J., del Río, C. J. & Martínez, S. (2020 [nomenclatural availability: 2019]). Revision of the subfamily Pitarinae Stewart, 1930 (<i>Eucallista</i> Dall, 1902; <i>Austrocallista</i> Erdmann & Morra, 1985; <i>Proteopitar</i> gen. nov.) from Cenozoic southern South America: systematic and phylogenetic analyses. <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 18(5): 433-460., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2019.1633695
page(s): 453 [details] Available for editors [request]
original description (of Venus circinata Born, 1778) Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]; (Kraus)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890 [details]
original description (of Venus guineensis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
original description (of Venus rubra Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
original description (of Cytherea guineensis Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 570 [details]
basis of record 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]
additional source Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2025). A taxonomic update for "Seashells of Southern Florida – Bivalves" (Mikkelsen and Bieler, 2007) with nomenclatural notes on other bivalve species. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 139(1): 1-27.
page(s): 14 [details] Available for editors
[request]status source Alvarez, M. J., del Río, C. J. & Martínez, S. (2020 [nomenclatural availability: 2019]). Revision of the subfamily Pitarinae Stewart, 1930 (<i>Eucallista</i> Dall, 1902; <i>Austrocallista</i> Erdmann & Morra, 1985; <i>Proteopitar</i> gen. nov.) from Cenozoic southern South America: systematic and phylogenetic analyses. <em>Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.</em> 18(5): 433-460., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2019.1633695
page(s): 453 [details] Available for editors
[request]
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