WoRMS taxon details
Amiantis callosa (Conrad, 1837)
507439 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507439)
accepted
Species
Antigona willisi Trask, 1922 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Cytherea callosa Conrad, 1837 · unaccepted (original combination)
Cytherea nobilis Reeve, 1850 · unaccepted
Pitaria stalderi B. L. Clark, 1915 · unaccepted
marine
(of Cytherea callosa Conrad, 1837) Conrad, T. A. (1837). Description of new marine shells, from Upper California. Collected by Thomas Nuttall, Esq. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 227-268, pls 17-20., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24676893
page(s): 252. [details]
page(s): 252. [details]
Type locality contained in California
type locality contained in California [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Amiantis callosa (Conrad, 1837). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507439 on 2025-08-23
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Antigona willisi Trask, 1922 †) Trask, P. D. (1922). The Briones Formation of middle California. <em>University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences.</em> 13(5): 133-174, pls. 1-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43811680
page(s): 152, pl. 5, fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Pitaria stalderi B. L. Clark, 1915) Clark, B. L. (1915). Fauna of the San Pablo Group of middle California. <em>University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology.</em> 8(22): 385–572, pls 42-71., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43628020
page(s): 468 [details]
original description (of Cytherea callosa Conrad, 1837) Conrad, T. A. (1837). Description of new marine shells, from Upper California. Collected by Thomas Nuttall, Esq. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 227-268, pls 17-20., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24676893
page(s): 252. [details]
original description (of Cytherea nobilis Reeve, 1850) Reeve, L. A. (1850). Description of a new species of <i>Cytherea</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 17: 126., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862210 [details]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
page(s): 152, pl. 5, fig. 2 [details]
original description (of Pitaria stalderi B. L. Clark, 1915) Clark, B. L. (1915). Fauna of the San Pablo Group of middle California. <em>University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geology.</em> 8(22): 385–572, pls 42-71., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43628020
page(s): 468 [details]
original description (of Cytherea callosa Conrad, 1837) Conrad, T. A. (1837). Description of new marine shells, from Upper California. Collected by Thomas Nuttall, Esq. <em>Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia.</em> 7: 227-268, pls 17-20., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/24676893
page(s): 252. [details]
original description (of Cytherea nobilis Reeve, 1850) Reeve, L. A. (1850). Description of a new species of <i>Cytherea</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 17: 126., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862210 [details]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
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. [details]





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To Malacopics (Amiantis callosa (Conrad, 1837) United States, California, Orange Co., Seal Beach, just below tide level, sandy bottom, collected 1976, ex coll. W.J.H. Onverwagt)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
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