African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS name details

Libitina Schumacher, 1817

AphiaID

205007 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205007)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (synonym)

Accepted name

Trapezium Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811

Rank

Genus

Parent

Trapezidae E. Lamy, 1920 (1895)

Original name

Libitina Schumacher, 1817

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Species Libitina rostrata Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Trapezium bicarinatum (Schumacher, 1817)
Species Libitina sublaevigata Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Neotrapezium sublaevigatum (Lamarck, 1819)

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): 54, 168 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Libitina Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205007 on 2026-08-14

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. Libitina Schumacher, 1817. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205007 on 2026-08-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-12-08 16:06:46Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2009-02-05 12:49:10Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2010-09-10 13:08:08Z

changed

Huber, Markus

2023-12-10 08:08:05Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

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Sources (4)

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): 54, 168 [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). 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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): 150 [details]