African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Gregariella difficilis (Deshayes, 1863)

AfReMaS taxon details

Gregariella difficilis (Deshayes, 1863)

AphiaID

506031 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506031)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Gregariella Monterosato, 1883

Original name

Modiola difficilis Deshayes, 1863

Synonymised names

Gregariella africana (Bartsch, 1915) · unaccepted

Modiolaria difficilis (Deshayes, 1863) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Musculus difficilis (Deshayes, 1863) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1-144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13068117
page(s): 23, pl. 3, figs 22-24. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Gregariella difficilis (Deshayes, 1863). 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=506031 on 2026-08-19

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. Gregariella difficilis (Deshayes, 1863). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506031 on 2026-08-19

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2015-03-15 18:05:07Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1-144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13068117
page(s): 23, pl. 3, figs 22-24. [details]

basis of record 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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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