WoRMS taxon details
Crassula aequilatera (Reeve, 1854)
505655 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505655)
accepted
Species
Mactra aequilatera Reeve, 1854 · unaccepted (superseded combination)
Mactra aequilateralis Deshayes, 1854 · unaccepted (junior objective synonym)
Spisula (Crassula) aequilateralis (Deshayes, 1854) · unaccepted (junior objective synonym)
Spisula aequilatera (Reeve, 1854) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Spisula aequilateralis (Deshayes, 1854) · unaccepted (junior objective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Mactra aequilatera Reeve, 1854) Reeve, L. A. (1854). Monograph of the genus <i>Mactra</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 8, pl. 1-21 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 2-5, March 1854; pl. 1, 6-14, April 1854; pl. 15-21, May 1854]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11120371
page(s): pl. 4, sp. 14 [details]
page(s): pl. 4, sp. 14 [details]
Type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone, New...
type locality contained in New Zealand Exclusive Economic Zone (origin: native - endemic) [details]
type locality contained in New Zealand [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
type locality contained in New Zealand [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Crassula aequilatera (Reeve, 1854). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505655 on 2025-10-13
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Mactra aequilatera Reeve, 1854) Reeve, L. A. (1854). Monograph of the genus <i>Mactra</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 8, pl. 1-21 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 2-5, March 1854; pl. 1, 6-14, April 1854; pl. 15-21, May 1854]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11120371
page(s): pl. 4, sp. 14 [details]
original description (of Mactra aequilateralis Deshayes, 1854) Deshayes, G. P. (1854). Descriptions of fourteen new species of <i>Mactra</i>, in the collection of Mr. Cuming. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1853) 21: 14-17. [published 27 June 1854 (pp. 14-16); 13 July 1854 (p. 17)]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747131
page(s): 17 [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): pl. 4, sp. 14 [details]
original description (of Mactra aequilateralis Deshayes, 1854) Deshayes, G. P. (1854). Descriptions of fourteen new species of <i>Mactra</i>, in the collection of Mr. Cuming. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1853) 21: 14-17. [published 27 June 1854 (pp. 14-16); 13 July 1854 (p. 17)]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747131
page(s): 17 [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]
Other
additional source
Beu, A. G. (2004). Marine Mollusca of oxygen isotope stages of the last 2 million years in New Zealand. Part 1: Revised generic positions and recognition of warm-water and cool-water migrants. <em>i>Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand</i.</em> 34(2): 111-265., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03014223.2004.9517766 [details] Available for editors 
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Crassula aequilatera)
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 21 proteins) (from synonym Spisula aequilateralis (Deshayes, 1854))
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 21 proteins) (from synonym Spisula aequilatera (Reeve, 1854))
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 21 proteins)
To Malacopics (Crassula aequilatera (Reeve, 1854) New Zealand, Bay of Plenty, Coromandel Co., Coromandel Peninsula, Kereta, by fishing, collected 1971, ex coll. W.J.H. Onverwagt)
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 21 proteins) (from synonym Spisula aequilateralis (Deshayes, 1854))
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 21 proteins) (from synonym Spisula aequilatera (Reeve, 1854))
To GenBank (21 nucleotides; 21 proteins)
To Malacopics (Crassula aequilatera (Reeve, 1854) New Zealand, Bay of Plenty, Coromandel Co., Coromandel Peninsula, Kereta, by fishing, collected 1971, ex coll. W.J.H. Onverwagt)
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