MolluscaBase name details
Pteria vitrea (Reeve, 1857)
156986 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156986)
unaccepted
Species
Avicula nitida A. E. Verrill, 1881 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)
invalid: junior homonym of Avicula nitida Forbes, 1846; A. verrilli is a replacement name
Avicula verrilli Cossmann, 1912 · unaccepted
Avicula vitrea Reeve, 1857 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine
(of Avicula vitrea Reeve, 1857) Reeve, L. A. (1857). Monograph of the genus <i>Avicula</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 8, pls 1-7 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 2-14, March 1857; pls. 1, 15-18, June 1857]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9127570 [details]
Distribution off Martha's Vineyard, Mass. To Florida (Gulf of Mexico)
Distribution off Martha's Vineyard, Mass. To Florida (Gulf of Mexico) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Pteria vitrea (Reeve, 1857). Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156986 on 2025-08-23
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(of Avicula vitrea Reeve, 1857) Reeve, L. A. (1857). Monograph of the genus <i>Avicula</i>. In: <i>Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals</i>, vol. 8, pls 1-7 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 2-14, March 1857; pls. 1, 15-18, June 1857]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9127570 [details]
basis of record Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] Available for editors
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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. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 139(1): 1-27.
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors [request]
source of synonymy 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]
basis of record Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details]
additional source Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] Available for editors
[request]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. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 139(1): 1-27.
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors
[request]source of synonymy 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]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Identification If the synonymy proposed by Huber (2010) is correct, the Western Atlantic records are misidntifications [details]Unreviewed
Distribution off Martha's Vineyard, Mass. To Florida (Gulf of Mexico) [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | glassy wing-oyster | [details] |
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Avicula nitida A. E. Verrill, 1881)
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Avicula vitrea Reeve, 1857)
To ITIS
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Avicula vitrea Reeve, 1857)
To ITIS
