WoRMS taxon details
Varicorbula Grant & Gale, 1931
AphiaID: 378491
AphiaID: 378491
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Myoida (Order) > Myoidea (Superfamily) > Corbulidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Tellina gibba Olivi, 1792 (type by original designation) | ||||||||||
| Parent | Corbulidae Lamarck, 1818 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Corbula (Varicorbula) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
status source: 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): Harms, J. , 1993. Check list of species (algae, invertebrates and vertebrates) found in the vicinity of the island of Helgoland (North Sea, German Bight) - a review of recent records. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuch. 47 1: 1-34. [details] [view taxon] additional source (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 Varicorbula grovesi (Coan, 2002) Species Varicorbula krebsiana (C. B. Adams, 1852) Species Varicorbula limatula (Conrad, 1846) Species Varicorbula obesa (Hinds, 1843) Species Varicorbula philippii (E. A. Smith, 1885) Species Varicorbula disparilis (d’Orbigny, 1853) accepted as Varicorbula limatula (Conrad, 1846) Species Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) accepted as Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) Species Varicorbula operculata (Philippi, 1848) accepted as Corbula operculata Philippi, 1848 Species Varicorbula yokoyamai Habe, 1949 accepted as Corbula yokoyamai (Habe, 1949) | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Links | To GenBank To ITIS | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:378491 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Varicorbula Grant & Gale, 1931. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=378491 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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