WoRMS taxon details

Ensis Schumacher, 1817

138333  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138333)

accepted
Genus
Ensis magnus Schumacher, 1817 (type by monotypy)
Ensatella Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (synonym)

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  1. Species Ensis californicus Dall, 1899
  2. Species Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758)
  3. Species Ensis goreensis (Clessin, 1888)
  4. Species Ensis leei M. Huber, 2015
  5. Species Ensis loboi Signorelli, Trovant & Márquez, 2022
  6. Species Ensis macha (Molina, 1782)
  7. Species Ensis magnus Schumacher, 1817
  8. Species Ensis megistus Pilsbry & T. L. McGinty, 1943
  9. Species Ensis minor (Chenu, 1843)
  10. Species Ensis myrae S. S. Berry, 1953
  11. Species Ensis nitidus (Clessin, 1888)
  12. Species Ensis siliqua (Linnaeus, 1758)
  13. Species Ensis terranovensis Vierna & Martínez-Lage, 2012
  14. Species Ensis tropicalis Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1955
  15. Subgenus Ensis (Occidentis) Dansey, 2021 (unaccepted > unavailable name, no diagnosis; no type species designation)
  16. Subgenus Ensis (Orientem) Dansey, 2021 (unavailable name (no diagnosis; no type species designation))
  17. Species Ensis americanus (A. Gould, 1870) accepted as Ensis leei M. Huber, 2015 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  18. Species Ensis arcuatus (Jeffreys, 1865) accepted as Ensis magnus Schumacher, 1817
  19. Species Ensis coseli Vierna, 2014 accepted as Ensis megistus coseli Vierna, 2014 (original rank)
  20. Species Ensis directus (Conrad, 1844) sensu Abbott, 1954 accepted as Ensis leei M. Huber, 2015
  21. Species Ensis luzonicus Dunker, 1862 accepted as Ensis macha (Molina, 1782) (Synonym, juvenile specimen of Ensis macha)
  22. Species Ensis minor Dall, 1899 accepted as Ensis coseli Vierna, 2014 accepted as Ensis megistus coseli Vierna, 2014 (invalid: junior secondary homonym of Ensis minor (Chenu, 1843); E. coseli is a replacement name)
  23. Species Ensis phaxoides Van Urk, 1964 accepted as Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  24. Species Ensis sicula Van Urk, 1964 accepted as Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
  25. Species Ensis siculus van Urk, 1964 accepted as Ensis minor (Chenu, 1843) (dubious synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
masculine
Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 143 [details]   
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Ensis Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138333 on 2024-03-19
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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2013-01-19 07:19:08Z
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2021-03-06 18:16:55Z
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2023-03-08 19:33:09Z
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2024-02-09 09:01:38Z
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original description Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 143 [details]   

original description  (of Ensatella Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 365 [details]   

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]   

basis of record Cosel R. von, 2009. The razor shells of the eastern Atlantic, part 2. Pharidae II: the genus <i>Ensis</i> Schumacher, 1817 (Bivalvia, Solenoidea). <i>Basteria</i>, 73: 9-56 , available online at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/download?type=document&docid=597354 [details]   

additional source Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 107 [details]   

additional source Holme, N. A. (1951). The identification of British species of the genus <i>Ensis</i> Schumacher (Lamellibranchiata). <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 29(3): 639-647., available online at http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1432/1/The_identification_of_British_species_of_the_genus_Ensis_Schumacher.pdf [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. [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
From other sources
Classification in family Solenidae [details]
LanguageName 
English razor shell  [details]