WoRMS taxon details
Chama echinata Broderip, 1835
504768 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:504768)
accepted
Species
Chama garthi F. R. Bernard, 1976 · unaccepted
Chama squamuligera Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932 · unaccepted
marine
Broderip W.J. (1835). Description of some species of <i>Chama</i>. <i>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London</i>, 2: 148-151., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30568491
page(s): 150 [details]
page(s): 150 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Chama echinata Broderip, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504768 on 2026-01-19
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Nomenclature
original description
Broderip W.J. (1835). Description of some species of <i>Chama</i>. <i>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London</i>, 2: 148-151., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30568491
page(s): 150 [details]
original description (of Chama squamuligera Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932) Pilsbry, H. A. & Lowe, H. N. (1932). West Mexican and Central American mollusks collected by H. N. Lowe, 1929–1931. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 84: 33-144, 17 pls., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4064126.pdf [details] Available for editors
[request]
original description (of Chama garthi F. R. Bernard, 1976) Bernard, F. R. (1976). Living Chamidae of the Eastern Pacific (Bivalvia: Heterodonta). <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science.</em> 278: 1-43. [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): 150 [details]
original description (of Chama squamuligera Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932) Pilsbry, H. A. & Lowe, H. N. (1932). West Mexican and Central American mollusks collected by H. N. Lowe, 1929–1931. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 84: 33-144, 17 pls., available online at https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4064126.pdf [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Chama garthi F. R. Bernard, 1976) Bernard, F. R. (1976). Living Chamidae of the Eastern Pacific (Bivalvia: Heterodonta). <em>Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, Contributions in Science.</em> 278: 1-43. [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]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 155623)
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Chama squamuligera Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932)
To Malacopics (Chama echinata Broderip, 1835 Mexico, Nayarit, El Tizate, low tide attached to rock...
To ITIS
To Barcode of Life (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (40 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) (from synonym Chama squamuligera Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932)
To Malacopics (Chama echinata Broderip, 1835 Mexico, Nayarit, El Tizate, low tide attached to rock...
To ITIS
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
