WoRMS name details
Pitaria Dall, 1902
204860 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204860)
unaccepted > unjustified emendation (of Pitar Römer, 1857)
Genus
Venus tumens Gmelin, 1791 accepted as Pitar tumens (Gmelin, 1791) (type by typification of replaced name)
- Species Pitaria ida Tegland, 1928 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
- Subgenus Pitaria (Aphrodora) Jukes-Browne, 1914 accepted as Aphrodora Jukes-Browne, 1914 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Pitaria (Callista) Poli, 1791 accepted as Callista Poli, 1791 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Pitaria (Callizona) Jukes-Browne, 1913 accepted as Transennella Dall, 1884 (invalid: junior homonym of Callizona Doubleday, 1848; Tinctora, Jukesbrownia, and Callizonata are replacement names)
- Subgenus Pitaria (Hyphantosoma) Dall, 1902 accepted as Hyphantosoma Dall, 1902 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Pitaria (Hysteroconcha) Dall, 1902 accepted as Hysteroconcha Dall, 1902 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Pitaria (Hysteroconcha) dione (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Hysteroconcha dione (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) Dall, 1902 accepted as Lamelliconcha Dall, 1902 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) callicomata Dall, 1902 accepted as Lamelliconcha callicomata (Dall, 1902) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) circinata (Born, 1778) accepted as Hysteroconcha circinata (Born, 1778) accepted as Lamelliconcha circinata (Born, 1778) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Pitaria (Leucothea) Jukes-Browne, 1913 accepted as Aphrodora Jukes-Browne, 1914 (unaccepted > junior homonym, invalid: junior homonym of Leucothea Mertens, 1833 [Cnidaria]; Aphrodora is a replacement name)
- Subgenus Pitaria (Macrocallista) F. B. Meek, 1876 accepted as Macrocallista F. B. Meek, 1876 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Pitaria (Pitaria) Dall, 1902 accepted as Pitar Römer, 1857 (unaccepted > unjustified emendation, of Pitar)
- Species Pitaria (Pitaria) fulminata (Menke, 1828) accepted as Pitar fulminatus (Menke, 1828) accepted as Jasypitar fulminatus (Menke, 1828) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Subgenus Pitaria (Pitarina) Jukes-Browne, 1913 accepted as Pitar (Pitarina) Jukes-Browne, 1913 accepted as Pitar Römer, 1857
- Species Pitaria callicomata Dall, 1902 accepted as Lamelliconcha callicomata (Dall, 1902) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Pitaria citrina (Lamarck, 1818) accepted as Pitar citrinus (Lamarck, 1818)
- Species Pitaria cordata Schwengel, 1951 accepted as Pitar cordatus Schwengel, 1951 accepted as Pitarenus cordatus (Schwengel, 1951) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Pitaria elata G. B. Sowerby III, 1908 accepted as Pitar elatus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1908)
- Species Pitaria floridella (J. E. Gray, 1838) accepted as Callista floridella (J. E. Gray, 1838) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Pitaria hebraea (Lamarck, 1818) accepted as Pitar hebraeus (Lamarck, 1818)
- Species Pitaria inconstans Hedley, 1923 accepted as Costellipitar inconstans (Hedley, 1923)
- Species Pitaria manillae (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851), sensu Barnard, 1964 accepted as Costellipitar madecassinus (Fischer-Piette & Delmas, 1967) (misapplication)
- Species Pitaria obliquata (Hanley, 1844) accepted as Pitar obliquatus (Hanley, 1844)
- Species Pitaria pygmaea G. B. Sowerby III, 1914 accepted as Aphrodora pygmaea (G. B. Sowerby III, 1914) (original combination)
- Species Pitaria roemeri Tomlin & Shackleford, 1913 accepted as Pitar virgo (J. E. Gray, 1838)
- Species Pitaria stalderi B. L. Clark, 1915 accepted as Amiantis callosa (Conrad, 1837)
- Species Pitaria subaresta Dall, 1912 accepted as Pitar subarestus Dall, 1912
- Species Pitaria subpellucida (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851) accepted as Pitar subpellucidus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851)
- Species Pitaria tellinoidea (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851) accepted as Costellipitar cor (Hanley, 1844)
- Species Pitaria tomeana Dall, 1902 accepted as Agriopoma tomeanum (Dall, 1902)
- Species Pitaria tumens (Gmelin, 1791) accepted as Pitar tumens (Gmelin, 1791)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Dall, W. H. (1902). Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American Recent species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 26 (1312): 335-412., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7612547
page(s): 353-354; note: unjustified emendation [details]
page(s): 353-354; note: unjustified emendation [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Pitaria Dall, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204860 on 2026-08-17
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Nomenclature
original description
Dall, W. H. (1902). Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American Recent species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 26 (1312): 335-412., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7612547
page(s): 353-354; note: unjustified emendation [details]
basis of record Odhner, N. H. J. (1919). Contribution à la faune malacologique de Madagascar. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 12(6): 1-52., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6455070 [details]
page(s): 353-354; note: unjustified emendation [details]
basis of record Odhner, N. H. J. (1919). Contribution à la faune malacologique de Madagascar. <em>Arkiv för Zoologi.</em> 12(6): 1-52., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6455070 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
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): 160 [details]
page(s): 160 [details]
Other
Present
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality