WoRMS taxon details
Mactrotoma nasuta (A. Gould, 1851)
505725 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:505725)
accepted
Species
Mactra californica Reeve, 1854 · unaccepted
Mactra californica Deshayes, 1855 · unaccepted (synonym and homonym)
Mactra deshayesii Conrad, 1868 · unaccepted
Mactra hiantina Deshayes, 1855 · unaccepted
Mactra nasuta A. Gould, 1851 · unaccepted (original combination)
Mactrotoma revellei Durham, 1950 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine
(of Mactra nasuta A. Gould, 1851) Gould, A.A. (1851). [... descriptions of a number of California shells collected by Maj. William Rich and Lieut. Thomas P. Green, United States Navy ...]. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4 (4): 87-93., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870797
page(s): 88. [details]
page(s): 88. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mactrotoma nasuta (A. Gould, 1851). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=505725 on 2025-08-23
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Mactra californica 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. 20, species 112; note: ex Deshayes ms. [details]
original description (of Mactra hiantina Deshayes, 1855) Deshayes, G. P. (1855). Descriptions of new species of shells, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 22 (1854): 62–72., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747443
page(s): 68 [details]
original description (of Mactra nasuta A. Gould, 1851) Gould, A.A. (1851). [... descriptions of a number of California shells collected by Maj. William Rich and Lieut. Thomas P. Green, United States Navy ...]. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4 (4): 87-93., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870797
page(s): 88. [details]
original description (of Mactrotoma revellei Durham, 1950) Durham, J. W. (1950). E.W. Scripps Cruise to the Gulf of California, Part 2: Megascopic Paleontology and Marine Stratigraphy. <em>The Geological Society of America Memoir.</em> 43: i-viii, 1-216. [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Mactra californica Deshayes, 1855) Deshayes, G. P. (1855). Descriptions of new species of shells, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 22 (1854): 62–72., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747443
page(s): 68 [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. 20, species 112; note: ex Deshayes ms. [details]
original description (of Mactra hiantina Deshayes, 1855) Deshayes, G. P. (1855). Descriptions of new species of shells, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 22 (1854): 62–72., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747443
page(s): 68 [details]
original description (of Mactra nasuta A. Gould, 1851) Gould, A.A. (1851). [... descriptions of a number of California shells collected by Maj. William Rich and Lieut. Thomas P. Green, United States Navy ...]. <em>Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History.</em> 4 (4): 87-93., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870797
page(s): 88. [details]
original description (of Mactrotoma revellei Durham, 1950) Durham, J. W. (1950). E.W. Scripps Cruise to the Gulf of California, Part 2: Megascopic Paleontology and Marine Stratigraphy. <em>The Geological Society of America Memoir.</em> 43: i-viii, 1-216. [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Mactra californica Deshayes, 1855) Deshayes, G. P. (1855). Descriptions of new species of shells, from the collection of Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 22 (1854): 62–72., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30747443
page(s): 68 [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 Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) (from synonym Mactra nasuta A. Gould, 1851)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) (from synonym Mactra californica Reeve, 1854)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Malacopics (Mactrotoma nasuta (Gould, 1851) United States, California, Inner Bay, Balboa beach, collected 1937-03-00, ex coll. H.H.M. Vermeij .)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Mactra nasuta Syntype USNM 2296) (from synonym Mactra nasuta A. Gould, 1851)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Mactra nasuta A. Gould, 1851)
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (30 publications) (from synonym Mactra californica Reeve, 1854)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (5 publications)
To Malacopics (Mactrotoma nasuta (Gould, 1851) United States, California, Inner Bay, Balboa beach, collected 1937-03-00, ex coll. H.H.M. Vermeij .)
To NMNH Extant Collection (Mactra nasuta Syntype USNM 2296) (from synonym Mactra nasuta A. Gould, 1851)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Mactra nasuta A. Gould, 1851)
To ITIS
Unreviewed
Hosted externally
Hosted externally, from synonym
