African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817

WoRMS taxon details

Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817

AphiaID

138642 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138642)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Mercenaria violacea Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Venerinae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817

Synonymised names

Crassivenus Perkins, 1869 · unaccepted (synonym)

Venus (Mercenaria) Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted

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Species Mercenaria browni Petuch & Berschauer, 2019
Species Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Mercenaria hartae Petuch, 2013
Species Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Mercenaria stimpsoni (A. Gould, 1861)
Species Mercenaria texana (Dall, 1902)
Species Mercenaria cuneata Conrad, 1868 accepted as Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Mercenaria fulgurans Tryon, 1865 accepted as Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Mercenaria kennicotti Dall, 1872 accepted as Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Species Mercenaria kennicottii Dall, 1871 accepted as Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Mercenaria obtusa Conrad, 1866 accepted as Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Mercenaria paucilamellata Dunker, 1863 accepted as Bassina pachyphylla (Jonas, 1839)
Species Mercenaria rutila (Sternheimer, 1957) accepted as Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758) (junior subjective synonym)
Species Mercenaria violacea Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 135 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138642 on 2025-05-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2005-04-14 07:47:17Z

changed

Cuvelier, Daphne

2011-03-14 19:17:39Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-10-12 19:36:57Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-01-09 19:51:35Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

2025-02-05 08:49:45Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 135 [details]

original description (of Crassivenus Perkins, 1869) Perkins G.H. (1869). Molluscan fauna of New Haven. A critical review of all the marine, fresh water and land Mollusca of the region, with descriptions of many of the living animals and of new species. Part 1. Cephalopoda and Gasteropoda. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 13: 109-136 [Errata: 428, published 1870]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41806565, https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41806884
page(s): 147 [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [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

additional source Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 154 [details]

additional source Goodsell, J. G. & Eversole, A. G. (1992). Prodissoconch I and II length in Mercenaria taxa. The Nautilus. 106(3): 119-122, fig. 1., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8271365 [details]