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Malleus Lamarck, 1799 
AphiaID: 138162

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pterioida (Order) > Pterioidea (Superfamily) > Malleidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Ostrea malleus Linnaeus, 1758 (type by monotypy)
Parent Malleidae Lamarck, 1818
Synonymised
taxa
  Brevimalleus McLean, 1947 (synonym)
Fundella Gregorio, 1884 (synonym)
Himantopoda Schumacher, 1817 (synonym)
Malleolus Rafinesque, 1815 (synonym)
Malleus (Malvufundus) de Gregorio, 1885
Malvufundus de Gregorio, 1885 (synonym)
Parimalleus Iredale, 1931 (synonym)
Tudes Oken, 1815 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details]

redescription: 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. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details]

status source: Tëmkin I. (2010) Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 342., available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2148-10-342.pdf [details]

from synonym: Huber M. (2010) 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.  [details] [view taxon]

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taxa

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 Species Malleus albus Lamarck, 1819
Species Malleus anatinus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Malleus candeanus (d'Orbigny, 1853)
Species Malleus daemoniacus Reeve, 1858
Species Malleus legumen Reeve, 1858
Species Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Malleus meridianus Cotton, 1930
Species Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)

Subgenus Malleus (Malvufundus) de Gregorio, 1885 represented as Malleus Lamarck, 1799 (alternate representation)
  » Species Malleus (Malvufundus) regulus [sic] accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)

Species Malleus acutus Clessin, 1890 accepted as Malleus daemoniacus Reeve, 1858
Species Malleus aquatilis Reeve, 1858 accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Species Malleus decurtatus Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Species Malleus figuratus Lynge, 1909 accepted as Malleus anatinus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Malleus maculatus Donovan, 1823 accepted as Malleus albus Lamarck, 1819
Species Malleus maculosus Reeve, 1858 accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Species Malleus normalis Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Malleus anatinus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Malleus novelesianus Iredale, 1931 accepted as Malleus albus Lamarck, 1819
Species Malleus obvolutus de Folin in de Folin & Périer, 1867 accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Species Malleus panamensis Mörch, 1861 accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Species Malleus regulus [sic] accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Species Malleus rufipunctatus Reeve, 1858 accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Species Malleus savignyi Jousseaume in Lamy, 1919 accepted as Malleus albus Lamarck, 1819
Species Malleus solitarius Reeve, 1858 accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Species Malleus tigrinus Reeve, 1858 accepted as Malleus anatinus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Malleus vesiculatus Reeve, 1858 accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Species Malleus vulgaris Lamarck, 1801 accepted as Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Malleus vulsellatus Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Malleus regula (Forsskål in Niebuhr, 1775)
Environment marine
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Image 
Pelseneer (1911, pl. 07)
Pelseneer (1911, pl. 07)
added on 2009-08-13 - author: P. Pelseneer
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138162
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2006-09-25 06:54:45Z  changed  Martinez, Olga
2011-03-12 15:24:03Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Malleus Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138162 on 2013-05-25
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