WoRMS taxon details
Circomphalus Mörch, 1853
AphiaID: 152411
AphiaID: 152411
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Venus plicata Gmelin, 1791 (type by subsequent designation) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Bassinaria Marwick, 1928 Callanaitis Iredale, 1917 Eusalacia Cossmann, 1920 Salacia Jukes-Brown, 1914 (Invalid: junior homonym of Salacia Lamouroux, 1816 [Cnidaria]; Callanaitis and Eusalacia are replacement names) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: 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] basis of record: Beu A.G. (2004) Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 34(2): 111-265. page(s): 172 [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] from synonym: Jukes-Brown A.D. 1914. A synopsis of the family Veneridae. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London, 11(1): 58-74; 11(2): 75-94, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/96204 [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Species Circomphalus disjectus (Perry, 1811) Species Circomphalus foliaceolamellosus (Dillwyn, 1817) Species Circomphalus hiraseanus (Kuroda, 1930) Species Circomphalus yatei (Gray, 1835) Species Circomphalus casina (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Venus casina Linnaeus, 1758 Species Circomphalus casina Fischer-Piette, 1974 accepted as Venus thomassini Fischer-Piette & Vukadinovic, 1977 Species Circomphalus rosalina (Rang, 1834) accepted as Venus crebrisulca Lamarck, 1818 Species Circomphalus strigillinus (Dall, 1902) accepted as Globivenus strigillina (Dall, 1902) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152411 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Circomphalus Mörch, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152411 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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