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Pycnodonte Fischer von Waldheim, 1835

AphiaID

204815 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204815)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Pycnodonte radiata Fischer von Waldheim, 1835 † (type by original designation)

Type taxon of

Pycnodonteinae Stenzel, 1959

Parent

Pycnodonteinae Stenzel, 1959

Original name

Pycnodonte Fischer von Waldheim, 1835

Synonymised names

Avia Vialov, 1936 † · unaccepted > junior homonym (Invalid: junior homonym of Avia...)

Invalid: junior homonym of Avia Navas, 1912 [Neuroptera]

Fatina (Avia) Vialov, 1936 † · unaccepted > junior homonym (Invalid: junior homonym of Avia...)

Invalid: junior homonym of Avia Navas, 1912 [Neuroptera]

Fatina (Costeina) Vialov, 1965 † · unaccepted

Gigantostrea Sacco, 1897 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Gryphaea (Circogryphaea) Vialov, 1936 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Gryphaea (Gigantostrea) Sacco, 1897 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Gryphaea (Notostrea) H. J. Finlay, 1928 · unaccepted

Gryphaea (Phygraea) Vialov, 1936 † · unaccepted > superseded combination

Gryphaea (Pycnodonta) [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Gryphaea (Pycnodonte) Fischer von Waldheim, 1835 † · unaccepted > superseded rank

Notostrea H. J. Finlay, 1928 † · unaccepted > superseded rank

Ostrea (Gigantostrea) Sacco, 1897 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Phrygraea Vialov, 1936 † · unaccepted > superseded rank

Phygraea Vialov, 1936 † · unaccepted > superseded rank

Pycnodonta [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling

Pycnodonte (Costeina) Vialov, 1965 † · alternative representation

Pycnodonte (Gigantostrea) Sacco, 1897 † · alternative representation

Pycnodonte (Notostrea) H. J. Finlay, 1928 † · alternative representation

Pycnodonte (Phygraea) Vialov, 1936 † · alternative representation

Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) Fischer von Waldheim, 1835 · alternative representation

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Species Pycnodonte taniguchii Hayami & Kase, 1992
Species Pycnodonte fisheri (Dall, 1914) accepted as Hyotissa fisheri (Dall, 1914)
Species Pycnodonte hyotis (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Hyotissa hyotis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Subgenus Pycnodonte (Pycnodonte) Fischer von Waldheim, 1835 represented as Pycnodonte Fischer von Waldheim, 1835

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1835). Lettre à M. le Baron de Férussac sur quelques genres de coquilles du Muséum-Demidoff et en particulier sur quelques coquilles fossiles de la Crimée. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 8: 99-123, pls. 1-5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40279599
page(s): 118-120, pl. 1 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Pycnodonte Fischer von Waldheim, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204815 on 2026-08-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-06-26 16:01:46Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-28 06:51:36Z

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Martinez, Olga

2010-07-09 11:19:22Z

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Gofas, Serge

2011-10-30 10:35:41Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2012-01-05 21:46:47Z

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Gofas, Serge

2020-01-26 19:36:23Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2024-01-31 19:11:42Z

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Köhler, Frank

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Nomenclature

original description Fischer von Waldheim, G. (1835). Lettre à M. le Baron de Férussac sur quelques genres de coquilles du Muséum-Demidoff et en particulier sur quelques coquilles fossiles de la Crimée. Bulletin de la Société Impériale des Naturalistes de Moscou. 8: 99-123, pls. 1-5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/40279599
page(s): 118-120, pl. 1 [details]

original description (of Notostrea H. J. Finlay, 1928 †) Marwick, J. (1928). The Tertiary Mollusca of the Chatham Islands, including a generic review of the New Zealand Pectinidae. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 58: 431-506., available online at https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/TPRSNZ1928-58.2.8.1.49
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original description (of Ostrea (Gigantostrea) Sacco, 1897 †) Sacco F. (1897). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte 23 (Ostreidae, Anomiidae, Dimyidae). Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino. 12(298): 99-100., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11810051
page(s): 99 [details]

original description (of Pycnodonte (Phygraea) Vialov, 1936 †) Vialov O. (1936). Sur la classification des huîtres. Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS. ser. 2, 4(1): 17-20. [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Fatina (Costeina) Vialov, 1965 †) Vialov (Vjalov) O.S. (1965). Некоторые палеогеновые устрицы [= Some Paleogene oysters]. Paleontologicheskiy sbornik Lvovskogo Gosudarstvennogo Universiteta. 2(1): 5-13.
page(s): 5 [details]

original description (of Avia Vialov, 1936 †) Vialov O. (1936). Sur la classification des huîtres. Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS. ser. 2, 4(1): 17-20.
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original description (of Gryphaea (Circogryphaea) Vialov, 1936 †) Vialov O. (1936). Sur la classification des huîtres. Comptes Rendus (Doklady) de l'Académie des Sciences de l'URSS. ser. 2, 4(1): 17-20.
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