WoRMS taxon details
Venus meretrix Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 544584
AphiaID: 544584
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Venus (Genus) |
| Status |  unaccepted (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Accepted name | Meretrix meretrix (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Meretrix Lamarck, 1799 | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Venus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: 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] 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] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:544584 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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[Taxonomic tree] [Distribution map] [Google] [Google scholar] [Google images] | ||||||||||||||
| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Huber, M. (2013). Venus meretrix Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/authority/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=544584 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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