WoRMS taxon details
Donacilla R. A. Philippi, 1836
593924 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:593924)
accepted
Genus
Donacilla lamarckii R. A. Philippi, 1836 accepted as Donacilla cornea (Poli, 1791) (type by original designation)
Mesodesma (Donacilla) R. A. Philippi, 1836 · unaccepted > superseded rank
- Species Donacilla cornea (Poli, 1791)
- Species Donacilla picta Dunker, 1877
- Species Donacilla africana W. H. Turton, 1932 accepted as Regterenia africana (W. H. Turton, 1932) (original combination)
- Species Donacilla delagoae Barnard, 1964 accepted as Paphies delagoae (Barnard, 1964)
- Species Donacilla lamarcki R. A. Philippi, 1836 accepted as Donacilla cornea (Poli, 1791) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Donacilla lamarckii R. A. Philippi, 1836 accepted as Donacilla cornea (Poli, 1791)
- Species Donacilla solenoides (P. P. King, 1832) accepted as Darina solenoides (P. P. King, 1832) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Donacilla seychellarum Rost & T. Soot-Ryen, 1955 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Philippi, R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. xiv + 267 p., pls. 1-12. Sumptibus Simonis Schroppii et Sociorum. Berolini [Berlin]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46935803
page(s): 37 [details]
page(s): 37 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Donacilla R. A. Philippi, 1836. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=593924 on 2025-03-30
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Nomenclature
original description
Philippi, R. A. (1836). Enumeratio molluscorum Siciliae cum viventium tum in tellure tertiaria fossilium quae in itinere suo observavit. Vol. 1. xiv + 267 p., pls. 1-12. Sumptibus Simonis Schroppii et Sociorum. Berolini [Berlin]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46935803
page(s): 37 [details]
page(s): 37 [details]
From editor or global species database
Authority The name is usually credited to Lamarck but it appears only as a vernacular "Donacille", without a description, in Extrait du cours de zoologie... (1812: 107). It is mentioned (again as vernacular "donacille") in Animaux sans vertèbres (1818, vol. 5 p. 489) in synonymy of Amphidesma where one of the included species is named A. donacilla. The name has been latinized by de Blainville (1819) in Dictionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, vol, 13 p. 428, without a description but with reference to both of these works where Amphidesma donacilla could have been taken as type species by absolute tautonymy. However Opinion 1141 of ICZN (Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature, 36 (1979): 122-124) has suppressed Donacilla Blainville, 1819 and placed Donacilla Philippi, 1836 on the official list with D. lamarckii as type species. [details]
