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WoRMS taxon details

Caribachlamys pellucens (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

393708 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:393708)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Caribachlamys T. R. Waller, 1993

Original name

Ostrea pellucens Linnaeus, 1758

Synonymised names

Caribachlamys imbricata (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted

Ostrea imbricata Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted (synonym)

Ostrea pellucens Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (original combination)

Pecten (Chlamys) imbricatus (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted

Pecten imbricatus (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Ostrea pellucens Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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Descriptive notes

Depth range below littoral

Depth range below littoral [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Caribachlamys pellucens (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=393708 on 2026-05-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-04-25 02:12:27Z

created

Dijkstra, Henk

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Nomenclature

original description (of Ostrea pellucens Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Ostrea imbricata Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

additional source Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2025). A taxonomic update for "Seashells of Southern Florida – Bivalves" (Mikkelsen and Bieler, 2007) with nomenclatural notes on other bivalve species. The Nautilus. 139(1): 1-27.
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