WoRMS name details
Saccostrea cucullata [sic]
224654 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224654)
unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (by Born, 1780)
Species
marine
(of Ostrea cuccullata 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): 100 [details]
page(s): 100 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Saccostrea cucullata [sic]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224654 on 2026-01-13
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Nomenclature
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(of Ostrea cuccullata 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): 100 [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): 100 [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]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Spelling the widely used spelling cucullata (with one "c") is based on a subsequent spelling in Born (1789); the original spelling in Born (1778) was cuccullata which is in prevalet use and is correct [details]
