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Hippopus hippopus (Linnaeus, 1758)

216411  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216411)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
  7. Euheterodonta (Subterclass)
  8. Imparidentia (Superorder)
  9. Cardiida (Order)
  10. Cardioidea (Superfamily)
  11. Cardiidae (Family)
  12. Tridacninae (Subfamily)
  13. Hippopus (Genus)
  14. Hippopus hippopus (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 691 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Hippopus hippopus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216411 on 2026-05-19
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. Hippopus hippopus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216411 on 2026-05-19
Date
action
by
1998-05-26 07:50:32Z
created
Fondo, Esther
2009-02-01 15:00:03Z
changed
ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2014-11-29 08:25:09Z
changed
ter Poorten, Jan Johan
2022-09-11 09:03:12Z
changed
ter Poorten, Jan Johan

original description (of ) Linnaeus, C. (1758). <i>Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis</i>. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 691 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

basis of record Poorten, J.J. ter. (2024). A taxonomic iconography of living Cardiidae. Harxheim: ConchBooks, 600 pp.
page(s): 248 [details] 

additional source Poorten, J.J. ter, 2009. The Cardiidae of the Panglao Marine Biodiversity Project 2004 and the Panglao 2005 Deep-Sea Cruise with descriptions of four new species (Bivalvia). <i>Vita Malacologica</i> 8: 9-96 [21 November 2009] . Available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850, available online at http://dare.uva.nl/record/340850 [details] 

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] 

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). [Checklist of marine biota of China seas]. <em>China Science Press.</em> 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors  PDF available
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (54 publications) 
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Hippopus hippopus) 
To GenBank (3952 nucleotides; 31 proteins) 
To IUCN Red List (Vulnerable) 
To Malacopics (Hippopus hippopus (Linnaeus, 1758) Philippines, Central Visayas, Cebu, Mactan Island... 
To Malacopics (Hippopus hippopus (Linnaeus, 1758)) 
To Malacopics (Hippopus hippopus (Linnaeus, 1758)) 
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
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