African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS name details

Cytherea Röding, 1798

AphiaID

204301 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204301)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794 [Diptera])

Accepted name

Periglypta Jukes-Browne, 1914

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Venus puerpera Linnaeus, 1771 accepted as Periglypta puerpera (Linnaeus, 1771) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Cytherea Röding, 1798

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Species Cytherea ambigua (Deshayes, 1853) accepted as Tivela compressa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Cytherea arabica (Chemnitz, 1795) accepted as Circenita varia (Forsskål, 1775) (unavailable name: published in a work rejected by ICZN direction 1)
Species Cytherea hebraea Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Pitar hebraeus (Lamarck, 1818) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

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
page(s): 177 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cytherea Röding, 1798. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204301 on 2026-07-26

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Cytherea Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204301 on 2026-07-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-11-14 15:35:57Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-09-10 13:08:08Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2011-05-03 20:37:57Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-10-12 19:36:57Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-09-10 06:44:12Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

2026-06-23 07:07:09Z

changed

Schneider, Simon

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Sources (3)

original description 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
page(s): 177 [details]

basis of record Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source 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]