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Corbicula fluminalis (O. F. Müller, 1774)

233525 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:233525)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
  7. Euheterodonta (Subterclass)
  8. Imparidentia (Superorder)
  9. Venerida (Order)
  10. Cyrenoidea (Superfamily)
  11. Cyrenidae (Family)
  12. Corbicula (Genus)
  13. Corbicula fluminalis (Species)
accepted
Species
Corbicula Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of ) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol. 1 [part 2]: 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774]; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): 2: 205 [details] OpenAccess publication
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Corbicula fluminalis (O. F. Müller, 1774). 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=233525 on 2026-08-23
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. Corbicula fluminalis (O. F. Müller, 1774). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=233525 on 2026-08-23
Date
action
by
2006-07-27 07:41:08Z
created
Renders, Kristel
2007-03-25 23:01:11Z
changed
Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-03-19 10:41:59Z
changed
Gofas, Serge

original description (of ) Müller, O. F. (1773-1774). <i>Vermium terrestrium et fluviatilium, seu animalium infusoriorum, helminthicorum, et testaceorum, non marinorum, succincta historia</i>. <em>[Book].</em> Vol. 1: 1-136 Infusoria [1773] / Vol. 1 [part 2]: 1-78 Helminthica 1-72 [1774]; Vol. 2: 1-214 Testacea + index 8 pp. [1774]. Havniæ (Copenhagen) & Lipsiæ (Leipzig): Heineck & Faber., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/50344
page(s): 2: 205 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Streftaris, N., A. Zenetos & E. Papathanassiou. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. <em>Oceanogry and Marine Biology: an Annual Review.</em> 43: 419-453. (look up in IMIS), available online at https://doi.org/10.1201/9781420037449.ch8 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Annandale, T. N. & Prashad, B. (1919). The Mollusca of the inland waters of Baluchistan and of Seistan, with a note on the liver-fluke of sheep in Seistan, by S. W. Kemp. <em>Records of the Indian Museum.</em> 18(1): 17-63, pls 3-8., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11134065
page(s): 58, pl. 8, figs. 1-6 [details] 

additional source Gollasch, S. & S. Nehring. (2006). National checklist for aquatic alien species in Germany. <em>Aquatic Invasions.</em> 1(4):245-269., available online at https://doi.org/10.3391/ai.2006.1.4.8 [details] OpenAccess publication

additional source InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). [details] 

additional source Jaeckel, S. (1956). Die Weichtiere (Mollusca) der Afghanistan-Expedition (1952-1953). <em>Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin.</em> 32(2): 337-353.
page(s): 351 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

additional source Mackie, G. L. (2007). Biology of freshwater corbiculid and sphaeriid clams of North America. <em>Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin New Series.</em> 15 (3: i-ix): 1-436. [details] 

additional source Nel, H.A., Perissinotto, R. & Taylor, R.H. (2012). Diversity of bivalve molluscs in the St Lucia estuary, with an annotated and illustrated checklist. <em>African Invertebrates.</em> 53(2): 503–525., available online at https://doi.org/10.5733/afin.023.0202
page(s): 525.; note: misapplication = C. africana [details] 
 
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To Barcode of Life (21 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (134 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Corbicula fluminalis) 
To GenBank (127 nucleotides; 68 proteins) 
To Information system on Aquatic Non-Indigenous and Cryptogenic Species (AquaNIS) 
To IUCN Red List (Least Concern) 
To Malacopics (Corbicula fluminalis (O. F. Müller, 1774) Netherlands, Zeeland, Domburg) 
To Malacopics (Corbicula fluminalis (O. F. Müller, 1774) Netherlands, Zeeland, off Ellewoutsdijk) 
To Malacopics (Corbicula fluminalis (O. F. Müller, 1774) Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Dordrecht) 
To ITIS
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