WoRMS taxon details
Siliqua Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
AphiaID: 159997
AphiaID: 159997
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > [unassigned] Euheterodonta (Order) > Solenoidea (Superfamily) > Pharidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Solen radiatus Linnaeus, 1758 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Pharidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Aulus Oken, 1815 (synonym) Leguminaria Schumacher, 1817 (objective synonym of Siliqua) Machaera Gould, 1841 (invalid: junior homonym of Machaera Cuvier, 1832 [Pisces]; Neomachaera is a replacement name) Siliqua (Neomachaera) Huber, 2010 Siliqua (Neosiliqua) Habe, 1965 Siliqua (Poortenia) Huber, 2010 Siliqua (Siliqua) Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 Solecurtoides Des Moulins, 1832 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record (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 Siliqua albida (Adams & Reeve, 1850) Species Siliqua alta (Broderip & Sowerby, 1829) Species Siliqua barnardi Huber, 2010 Species Siliqua costata (Say, 1822) Species Siliqua fasciata (Spengler, 1794) Species Siliqua grayana (Dunker, 1862) Species Siliqua lucida (Conrad, 1837) Species Siliqua minima (Gmelin, 1791) Species Siliqua patula (Dixon, 1789) Species Siliqua pulchella Dunker, 1852 Species Siliqua radiata (Linnaeus, 1758) Species Siliqua rostrata (Dunker, 1862) Species Siliqua squama (Blainville, 1827) Subgenus Siliqua (Neomachaera) Huber, 2010 represented as Siliqua Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 (alternate representation) Subgenus Siliqua (Neosiliqua) Habe, 1965 represented as Siliqua Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 (alternate representation) Subgenus Siliqua (Poortenia) Huber, 2010 represented as Siliqua Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 (alternate representation) Subgenus Siliqua (Siliqua) Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 represented as Siliqua Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 (alternate representation)
Species Siliqua polita (Dunker, 1862) accepted as Sinupharus africanus (Chenu, 1843) Species Siliqua tenerior (Hedley, 1914) accepted as Cultellus tenerior (Hedley, 1914) | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:159997 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Siliqua Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=159997 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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