WoRMS taxon details
Galatea paradoxa (Born, 1778)
494749 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:494749)
accepted
Species
Egeria paradoxa (Born, 1778) · unaccepted > superseded combination
Egeria radiata (Lamarck, 1805) · unaccepted
Galatea biangulata G. B. Sowerby II, 1868 · unaccepted
Galatea heukelomii Bernardi, 1860 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Galatea radiata Lamarck, 1805 · unaccepted
Venus fluminea Röding, 1798 · unaccepted
Venus hermaphrodita Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted
Venus paradoxa Born, 1778 · unaccepted (original combination)
Venus reclusa Favanne, 1780 · unaccepted
Venus subviridis Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted
recent only
(of Venus paradoxa Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). <i>Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis</i>. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 53 [details]
page(s): 53 [details]
Distribution Volta, Niger, and Cross rivers in West Africa
Distribution Volta, Niger, and Cross rivers in West Africa [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Galatea paradoxa (Born, 1778). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=494749 on 2026-01-14
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Venus fluminea Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]
original description (of Venus hermaphrodita 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]
original description (of Venus paradoxa Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). <i>Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis</i>. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 53 [details]
original description (of Venus subviridis 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]
original description (of Galatea radiata Lamarck, 1805) Lamarck J.B. (1805). Sur la Galathée, Nouveau genre de coquillage bivalve. <em>Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 5: 430-434.
page(s): 433 [details]
basis of record Kondakov, A. V.; Konopleva, E. S.; Adesanya, A. J.; Bespalaya, Y. V.; Braun, J. J.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Lyubas, A. A.; Tomilova, A. A.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Pokrovsky, O. S.; Bolotov, I. N. (2020). The global freshwater bivalve checklist's extension: Freshwater occurrences and phylogenetic position of <em>Galatea</em> clams from West Africa (Venerida: Donacidae). <em>Ecologica Montenegrina.</em> 35: 144-158., available online at https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.35.12
page(s): 152 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Venus hermaphrodita 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]
original description (of Venus paradoxa Born, 1778) Born, I. von. (1778). <i>Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis</i>. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]: Kraus. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 53 [details]
original description (of Venus subviridis 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]
original description (of Galatea radiata Lamarck, 1805) Lamarck J.B. (1805). Sur la Galathée, Nouveau genre de coquillage bivalve. <em>Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 5: 430-434.
page(s): 433 [details]
basis of record Kondakov, A. V.; Konopleva, E. S.; Adesanya, A. J.; Bespalaya, Y. V.; Braun, J. J.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Lyubas, A. A.; Tomilova, A. A.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Pokrovsky, O. S.; Bolotov, I. N. (2020). The global freshwater bivalve checklist's extension: Freshwater occurrences and phylogenetic position of <em>Galatea</em> clams from West Africa (Venerida: Donacidae). <em>Ecologica Montenegrina.</em> 35: 144-158., available online at https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.35.12
page(s): 152 [details] Available for editors
[request]Identification resource
identification resource
Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). <i>Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola</i>. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 672-673 [details]
page(s): 672-673 [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution Volta, Niger, and Cross rivers in West Africa [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (22 publications) (from synonym Egeria radiata (Lamarck, 1805))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (46 publications) (from synonym Galatea radiata Lamarck, 1805)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Galatea paradoxa)
To GenBank (64 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To GenBank (64 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Venus paradoxa Born, 1778)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Galatea heukelomii Bernardi, 1860)
To Malacopics (Galatea heukelomii Bernardi,1860 HOLOTYPE Atlantic Ocean, no further locality)
To Malacopics (Galatea paradoxa (Born,1778) Ghana, Greater Accra, Ada Foah)
To Malacopics (Galatea radiata var. multiradiata Bernardi,1860 HOLOTYPE Guinea)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (46 publications) (from synonym Galatea radiata Lamarck, 1805)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (7 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Galatea paradoxa)
To GenBank (64 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To GenBank (64 nucleotides; 5 proteins) (from synonym Venus paradoxa Born, 1778)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern)
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) (from synonym Galatea heukelomii Bernardi, 1860)
To Malacopics (Galatea heukelomii Bernardi,1860 HOLOTYPE Atlantic Ocean, no further locality)
To Malacopics (Galatea paradoxa (Born,1778) Ghana, Greater Accra, Ada Foah)
To Malacopics (Galatea radiata var. multiradiata Bernardi,1860 HOLOTYPE Guinea)
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