WoRMS taxon details
Brachidontes Swainson, 1840
AphiaID: 138215
AphiaID: 138215
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Modiola sulcata Lamarck, 1819 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Mytilidae Rafinesque, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Aeidimytilus Olsson, 1961 (synonym) Austromytilus Laseron, 1956 (synonym) Brachydontes Gray, 1847 (error fore Brachidontes Swainson, 1840) Brachyodontes Agassiz, 1846 (error for Brachidontes Swainson, 1840) Dentimodiolus Iredale, 1939 (synonym) Hormomya Mörch, 1853 (synonym) Scolimytilus Olsson, 1961 (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
additional source: 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] from synonym: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] 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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Brachidontes adamsianus (Dunker, 1857) Species Brachidontes blakeanus (Melvill & Standen, 1914) Species Brachidontes crebristriatus (Conrad, 1837) Species Brachidontes darwinianus (d'Orbigny, 1842) Species Brachidontes domingensis (Lamarck, 1819) Species Brachidontes erosus (Lamarck, 1819) Species Brachidontes esmeraldensis (Olsson, 1961) Species Brachidontes evansi (E. A. Smith, 1903) Species Brachidontes exustus (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Brachidontes granoliratus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1909) Species Brachidontes granulatus (Hanley, 1843) Species Brachidontes modiolus (Linnaeus, 1767) Species Brachidontes mutabilis (Gould, 1861) Species Brachidontes niger (Gmelin, 1791) Species Brachidontes pharaonis (P. Fischer, 1870) Species Brachidontes playasensis (Pilsbry & Olsson, 1935) Species Brachidontes puniceus (Gmelin, 1791) Species Brachidontes puntarenensis (Pilsbry & Lowe, 1932) Species Brachidontes rodriguezii (d'Orbigny, 1842) Species Brachidontes rostratus (Dunker, 1857) Species Brachidontes sculptus (Iredale, 1939) Species Brachidontes semilaevis (Menke, 1848) Species Brachidontes setiger (Dunker, 1857) Species Brachidontes striatulus (Hanley, 1843) Species Brachidontes subramosus (Hanley, 1843) Species Brachidontes subsulcatus (Dunker, 1857) Species Brachidontes tenuistriatus (Dunker, 1853) Species Brachidontes undulatus (Dunker, 1857) Species Brachidontes virgiliae (Barnard, 1964) Species Brachidontes australis Sowerby (species inquirenda) Species Brachidontes demissus (Dillwyn, 1817) accepted as Geukensia demissa (Dillwyn, 1817) Species Brachidontes multiformis (Carpenter, 1857) accepted as Brachidontes semilaevis (Menke, 1848) Species Brachidontes pseudorecurvus Nowell-Usticke, 1969 accepted as Brachidontes modiolus (Linnaeus, 1767) Species Brachidontes purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Perumytilus purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819) Species Brachidontes semistriatus (Krauss, 1848) accepted as Brachidontes pharaonis (P. Fischer, 1870) Species Brachidontes ustulatus (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Brachidontes pharaonis (P. Fischer, 1870) Species Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848) accepted as Brachidontes pharaonis (P. Fischer, 1870) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138215 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Brachidontes Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138215 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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