WoRMS name details
Novaculina andamanensis Preston, 1908
820235 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:820235)
unaccepted (junior subjective synonym)
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Preston, H. B. (1908). Descriptions of new species of land, marine and freshwater shells from the Andaman Islands. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 2(2): 187-210, pls 14-17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35163982
page(s): 209, pl. 16, fig. 40 [details]
page(s): 209, pl. 16, fig. 40 [details]
Type locality contained in Andaman Islands
type locality contained in Andaman Islands [details]
Distribution India, Andaman Islands
Distribution India, Andaman Islands [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Novaculina andamanensis Preston, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=820235 on 2025-03-06
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Nomenclature
original description
Preston, H. B. (1908). Descriptions of new species of land, marine and freshwater shells from the Andaman Islands. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 2(2): 187-210, pls 14-17., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/35163982
page(s): 209, pl. 16, fig. 40 [details]
basis of record Graf, D.; Cummings, K. (2019). Musselp database: The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). , available online at http://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/ [details]
page(s): 209, pl. 16, fig. 40 [details]
basis of record Graf, D.; Cummings, K. (2019). Musselp database: The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). , available online at http://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/ [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Bolotov, I. N.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Lopes-Lima, M.; Lunn, Z.; Chan, N.; Win, T.; Aksenova, O. V.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Kondakov, A. V.; Konopleva, E. S.; Tumpeesuwan, S. (2018). Discovery of Novaculina myanmarensis sp. nov. (Bivalvia: Pharidae: Pharellinae) closes the freshwater razor clams range disjunction in Southeast Asia. <em>Scientific Reports.</em> 8(1)., available online at https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-34491-8
note: treated as a synonym of Azorinus coarctatus (Gmelin, 1791) which Huber (2010) had treated as nomen dubium (with usage for both a European species and an Indo-Pacific species) [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy 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]
note: treated as a synonym of Azorinus coarctatus (Gmelin, 1791) which Huber (2010) had treated as nomen dubium (with usage for both a European species and an Indo-Pacific species) [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy 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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution India, Andaman Islands [details]
