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Parvamussium Sacco, 1897

181286  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181286)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Pteriomorphia (Infraclass)
  7. Pectinida (Order)
  8. Pectinoidea (Superfamily)
  9. Propeamussiidae (Family)
  10. Parvamussium (Genus)
accepted
Genus
Amussiopsis Andreeva, 1966 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Amussium (Parvamussium) Sacco, 1897 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Amussium (Variamussium) Sacco, 1897 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ctenamusium Iredale, 1929 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ctenamussium [sic] · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling)
Glyptamusium Iredale, 1939 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Paramussium [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Parvamussium (Polynemamussium) T. Habe, 1951 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pecten (Variamussium) Sacco, 1897 · unaccepted (subjective synonym)
Polynemamussium T. Habe, 1951 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Propeamussium (Parvamussium) Sacco, 1897 · unaccepted > superseded rank
Propeamussium (Squamamussium) Oyama, 1944 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Squamamussium Oyama, 1944 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Variamussium Sacco, 1897 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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  1. Species Parvamussium alaskense (Dall, 1871)
  2. Species Parvamussium aldeynzeri Dijkstra, 2004
  3. Species Parvamussium araneum Dijkstra, 1991
  4. Species Parvamussium australanum Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2010
  5. Species Parvamussium biformatum Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2008
  6. Species Parvamussium caesicium Dijkstra & Moolenbeek, 2008
  7. Species Parvamussium cancellatum (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  8. Species Parvamussium cancellorum Dijkstra & B. A. Marshall, 2008
  9. Species Parvamussium carbaseum Dijkstra, 1991
  10. Species Parvamussium cassium Dijkstra, 1991
  11. Species Parvamussium catillus Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2015
  12. Species Parvamussium conspectum Dijkstra & Kastoro, 1997
  13. Species Parvamussium cristatellum (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912)
  14. Species Parvamussium dautzenbergi (Dijkstra, 1990)
  15. Species Parvamussium decoratum Hayami & Kase, 1993
  16. Species Parvamussium diomedeum (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  17. Species Parvamussium fenestratum (Forbes, 1844)
  18. Species Parvamussium formosum (Melvill, 1907)
  19. Species Parvamussium gracile (Z.-R. Wang, 1984)
  20. Species Parvamussium holmesii (Dall, 1886)
  21. Species Parvamussium ina (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912)
  22. Species Parvamussium intuscostatum (Yokoyama, 1920)
  23. Species Parvamussium intuslaeve Dijkstra & Gofas, 2004
  24. Species Parvamussium kauaium (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  25. Species Parvamussium kilburni Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2015
  26. Species Parvamussium lamellatum Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2013
  27. Species Parvamussium lamprelli Dijkstra & Beu, 2018
  28. Species Parvamussium largoi Dijkstra, 2013
  29. Species Parvamussium liaoi Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2009
  30. Species Parvamussium liui Y.-T. Lin & J.-W. Qiu, 2026
  31. Species Parvamussium lozoueti Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2008
  32. Species Parvamussium maorium Dell, 1956
  33. Species Parvamussium marmoratum (Dall, 1881)
  34. Species Parvamussium marquesanum Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2008
  35. Species Parvamussium minusculum Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2017
  36. Species Parvamussium molokaium (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  37. Species Parvamussium multiliratum Dijkstra, 1995
  38. Species Parvamussium musorstomi Dijkstra, 2001
  39. Species Parvamussium nesiotum (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  40. Species Parvamussium obliquum (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  41. Species Parvamussium orbiculatum Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2013
  42. Species Parvamussium pacificum Kamenev, 2017
  43. Species Parvamussium pailoloum (Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938)
  44. Species Parvamussium pauciliratum (E. A. Smith, 1903)
  45. Species Parvamussium permirum (Dautzenberg, 1925)
  46. Species Parvamussium perspicuum Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2013
  47. Species Parvamussium polynesianum Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2008
  48. Species Parvamussium pourtalesianum (Dall, 1886)
  49. Species Parvamussium propinquum (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  50. Species Parvamussium puillandrei Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2015
  51. Species Parvamussium rainesi Dijkstra, 2012
  52. Species Parvamussium retiaculum Dijkstra, 1995
  53. Species Parvamussium retiolum Dijkstra, 1995
  54. Species Parvamussium sayanum (Dall, 1886)
  55. Species Parvamussium scitulum (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  56. Species Parvamussium scutulatum Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2013
  57. Species Parvamussium siebenrocki (Sturany, 1899)
  58. Species Parvamussium sinense (Z.-R. Wang, 1980)
  59. Species Parvamussium slacksmithae Dijkstra & Beu, 2018
  60. Species Parvamussium squalidulum Dijkstra, 1995
  61. Species Parvamussium squamigerum (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  62. Species Parvamussium strongae Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2015
  63. Species Parvamussium texturatum (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912)
  64. Species Parvamussium thetidis (Hedley, 1902)
  65. Species Parvamussium thyrideum (Melvill, 1907)
  66. Species Parvamussium torresi (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  67. Species Parvamussium undisonum Dijkstra, 1995
  68. Species Parvamussium undosum Dijkstra, 1991
  69. Species Parvamussium vesiculatum Dijkstra, 1995
  70. Species Parvamussium vesiculosum Dijkstra & Maestrati, 2013
  71. Species Parvamussium vidalense (Barnard, 1964)
  72. Species Parvamussium virgatum Dijkstra, 1991
  73. Species Parvamussium whissoni Dijkstra & Beu, 2018
  74. Subgenus Parvamussium (Flavamussium) T. Habe, 1951 accepted as Propeamussium De Gregorio, 1884 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
    1. Species Parvamussium (Flavamussium) caducum (E. A. Smith, 1885) accepted as Propeamussium caducum (E. A. Smith, 1885) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  75. Subgenus Parvamussium (Parvamussium) Sacco, 1897 accepted as Parvamussium Sacco, 1897
    1. Species Parvamussium (Parvamussium) rubrotinctum Oyama, 1951 accepted as Propeamussium rubrotinctum (Oyama, 1951) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
  76. Subgenus Parvamussium (Polynemamussium) T. Habe, 1951 accepted as Parvamussium Sacco, 1897 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
    1. Species Parvamussium (Polynemamussium) alaskensis (Dall, 1871) accepted as Parvamussium alaskense (Dall, 1871) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
    2. Species Parvamussium (Polynemamussium) uschakovi (Scarlato, 1960) accepted as Parvamussium intuscostatum (Yokoyama, 1920) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
  77. Species Parvamussium alaskensis (Dall, 1871) accepted as Parvamussium alaskense (Dall, 1871) (unaccepted > incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
  78. Species Parvamussium cristellum [sic] accepted as Parvamussium cristatellum (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912) (misspelling)
  79. Species Parvamussium crypticum Hayami & Kase, 1993 accepted as Parvamussium carbaseum Dijkstra, 1991 (synonym)
  80. Species Parvamussium intuslaevis Dijkstra & Gofas, 2004 accepted as Parvamussium intuslaeve Dijkstra & Gofas, 2004 (wrong gender agreement of specific name)
  81. Species Parvamussium jeffreysii (E. A. Smith, 1885) accepted as Propeamussium jeffreysii (E. A. Smith, 1885)
  82. Species Parvamussium lucidum (Jeffreys, 1873) accepted as Propeamussium lucidum (Jeffreys, 1873) (superseded combination)
  83. Species Parvamussium meridionale (E. A. Smith, 1885) accepted as Propeamussium meridionale (E. A. Smith, 1885) (superseded combination)
  84. Species Parvamussium octodecimliratum (Melvill & Standen, 1907) accepted as Propeamussium octodecimliratum (Melvill & Standen, 1907)
  85. Species Parvamussium thalassinum (Dall, 1886) accepted as Cyclopecten thalassinus (Dall, 1886)
  86. Species Parvamussium toyoshiomaruae Okutani, 2005 accepted as Parvamussium aldeynzeri Dijkstra, 2004
  87. Species Parvamussium zoniferum (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912) accepted as Propeamussium zoniferum (Dautzenberg & Bavay, 1912)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
neuter
(of Amussium (Parvamussium) Sacco, 1897) Sacco F. (1897). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte 24. <em>Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino.</em> 12(298): 101-102., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11810053
page(s): 102 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Parvamussium Sacco, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181286 on 2026-04-21
Date
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2005-09-12 11:13:23Z
created
Gofas, Serge
2005-12-22 09:44:19Z
changed
Gofas, Serge
2009-04-14 12:50:11Z
changed
Dijkstra, Henk
2015-12-19 18:29:54Z
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Bouchet, Philippe
2017-11-25 04:06:11Z
changed
Bouchet, Philippe
2023-10-04 08:19:56Z
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Köhler, Frank

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Nomenclature

original description (of Ctenamusium Iredale, 1929) Iredale, T. (1929). Mollusca from the continental shelf of eastern Australia. No 2. <em>Records of the Australian Museum.</em> 17(4): 157-189 [4 September 1929]., available online at http://australianmuseum.net.au/journal/Iredale-1929-Rec-Aust-Mus-174-157189
page(s): 164, 188 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Glyptamusium Iredale, 1939) Iredale, T. (1939). Mollusca. Part I. <em>Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929.</em> 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-7., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49513635
page(s): 370 [details] 

original description (of Polynemamussium T. Habe, 1951) Habe, T. (1951-1953). Genera of Japanese shells. Pelecypoda and Scaphopoda. Kyoto, Part 1, 1-96 [Feb. 1951]; Part 2, 97-186 [Sept. 1951]; Part 3, 187-278, [279-280] [May 1952]; Part 4, 281-326 [Jan. 1953].
page(s): 2: 72, fig. 136, 137 [details] 

original description (of Amussium (Variamussium) Sacco, 1897) Sacco F. (1897). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte 24. <em>Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino.</em> 12(298): 101-102., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11810053
page(s): 102 [details] 

original description (of Amussium (Parvamussium) Sacco, 1897) Sacco F. (1897). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte 24. <em>Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino.</em> 12(298): 101-102., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11810053
page(s): 102 [details] 

original description (of Amussiopsis Andreeva, 1966 †) Andreeva, T. F. (1966). Plastinchatozhabernyye iz yurskikh otlozheniy Yugo-Vostochnogo i Tsentral'nogo Pamira (semeystva Pectinidae, Limidae, Ceratomyidae) [Bivalves from Jurassic deposits of southeastern and central Pamir (family Pectinidae, Limidae and Ceratomyidae)]. <em>Trudy upravleniya geologii soveta. Tadschiksko SSR, Paleontologii i Stratigrafii.</em> 2: 1-70. Moskva. [details] 

original description (of Propeamussium (Squamamussium) Oyama, 1944) Oyama K. (1944). [Classification of the genus <i>Propeamussium</i>] [in Japanese]. <em>Venus.</em> 13(5-8): 240-254., available online at https://doi.org/10.18941/vinuskz.13.5-8_240
page(s): 245 [details] 

basis of record Dijkstra, H. H. (1995). Bathyal Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae, Pectinidae) from New Caledonia and adjacent areas. in: Bouchet, P. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie.</em> 167: 9-73., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58833137 [details] 

Taxonomy

redescription Dijkstra, H. H. (2013). Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae and Pectinidae) from the Panglao region, Philippine Islands. <em>Vita Malacologica.</em> 10: 1-108 [6 April 2013]., available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/document/504769 [details] 

Ecology

ecology source Hicks, G.R.F. & B.A. Marshall. (1985). Sex selective predation of deep-sea, meiobenthic copepods by pectinacean bivalves and its influence on copepod sex ratios. New Zealand Journal of Marine and Freshwater Research 19(2):227-231, tabs. 1-2. (1-viii-1985), available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00288330.1985.9516089 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

Other

additional source Sacco, F. (1897). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXIV. (Pectinidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 116 pp., 21 pl. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47313 [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): 192 [details] 

 
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Remark Type species: Pecten duodecimlamellatum Born, 1831 (fossil) [details]
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