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)

Ordering

  • Alphabetically
  • By status

Children Display

  1. Species Pitaria ida Tegland, 1928 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum)
  2. Subgenus Pitaria (Aphrodora) Jukes-Browne, 1914 accepted as Aphrodora Jukes-Browne, 1914 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
  3. Subgenus Pitaria (Callista) Poli, 1791 accepted as Callista Poli, 1791 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
    1. 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)
    2. Subgenus Pitaria (Hyphantosoma) Dall, 1902 accepted as Hyphantosoma Dall, 1902 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
      1. Subgenus Pitaria (Hysteroconcha) Dall, 1902 accepted as Hysteroconcha Dall, 1902 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
        1. Species Pitaria (Hysteroconcha) dione (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Hysteroconcha dione (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
      2. Subgenus Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) Dall, 1902 accepted as Lamelliconcha Dall, 1902 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
        1. Species Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) callicomata Dall, 1902 accepted as Lamelliconcha callicomata (Dall, 1902) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
        2. Species Pitaria (Lamelliconcha) circinata (Born, 1778) accepted as Hysteroconcha circinata (Born, 1778) accepted as Lamelliconcha circinata (Born, 1778) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
      3. 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)
      4. Subgenus Pitaria (Macrocallista) F. B. Meek, 1876 accepted as Macrocallista F. B. Meek, 1876 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
        1. Subgenus Pitaria (Pitaria) Dall, 1902 accepted as Pitar Römer, 1857 (unaccepted > unjustified emendation, of Pitar)
          1. Species Pitaria (Pitaria) fulminata (Menke, 1828) accepted as Pitar fulminatus (Menke, 1828) accepted as Jasypitar fulminatus (Menke, 1828) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
        2. Subgenus Pitaria (Pitarina) Jukes-Browne, 1913 accepted as Pitar (Pitarina) Jukes-Browne, 1913 accepted as Pitar Römer, 1857
        3. Species Pitaria callicomata Dall, 1902 accepted as Lamelliconcha callicomata (Dall, 1902) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
        4. Species Pitaria citrina (Lamarck, 1818) accepted as Pitar citrinus (Lamarck, 1818)
        5. Species Pitaria cordata Schwengel, 1951 accepted as Pitar cordatus Schwengel, 1951 accepted as Pitarenus cordatus (Schwengel, 1951) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
        6. Species Pitaria elata G. B. Sowerby III, 1908 accepted as Pitar elatus (G. B. Sowerby III, 1908)
        7. Species Pitaria floridella (J. E. Gray, 1838) accepted as Callista floridella (J. E. Gray, 1838) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
        8. Species Pitaria hebraea (Lamarck, 1818) accepted as Pitar hebraeus (Lamarck, 1818)
        9. Species Pitaria inconstans Hedley, 1923 accepted as Costellipitar inconstans (Hedley, 1923)
        10. Species Pitaria manillae (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851), sensu Barnard, 1964 accepted as Costellipitar madecassinus (Fischer-Piette & Delmas, 1967) (misapplication)
        11. Species Pitaria obliquata (Hanley, 1844) accepted as Pitar obliquatus (Hanley, 1844)
        12. Species Pitaria pygmaea G. B. Sowerby III, 1914 accepted as Aphrodora pygmaea (G. B. Sowerby III, 1914) (original combination)
        13. Species Pitaria roemeri Tomlin & Shackleford, 1913 accepted as Pitar virgo (J. E. Gray, 1838)
        14. Species Pitaria stalderi B. L. Clark, 1915 accepted as Amiantis callosa (Conrad, 1837)
        15. Species Pitaria subaresta Dall, 1912 accepted as Pitar subarestus Dall, 1912
        16. Species Pitaria subpellucida (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851) accepted as Pitar subpellucidus (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851)
        17. Species Pitaria tellinoidea (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851) accepted as Costellipitar cor (Hanley, 1844)
        18. Species Pitaria tomeana Dall, 1902 accepted as Agriopoma tomeanum (Dall, 1902)
        19. 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] 
        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
        Date
        action
        by
        2001-11-14 15:35:57Z
        created
        2006-09-27 07:06:07Z
        changed
        Martinez, Olga
        2010-09-10 13:08:08Z
        checked
        2013-01-06 16:11:04Z
        changed
        2013-09-04 07:38:10Z
        changed
        2018-06-26 06:48:35Z
        changed
        2024-01-29 07:54:06Z
        changed
        2025-08-03 11:30:16Z
        changed

        Creative Commons License The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License


        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] 

        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] 

        Other

        additional source 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