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Pitar laetus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 507844

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Pitar (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pitar Römer, 1857
Synonymised
taxa
  Caryatis reeveana Hidalgo, 1903
Cytherea citrina G. B. Sowerby II, 1851
Cytherea subinflata G. B. Sowerby II, 1851
Dione striata Reeve, 1863
Pitar marrowae Healy & Lamprell, 1992
Venus laeta Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Sources  basis of record: 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]

original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507844
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Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2010-08-18 08:38:17Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-15 11:43:10Z  checked  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Pitar laetus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507844 on 2013-06-19
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