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WoRMS taxon details

Divaricella occidua (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938)

AphiaID

464145 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:464145)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Divaricella E. von Martens, 1880

Original name

Divalucina occidua Cotton & Godfrey, 1938

Synonymised names

Divalucina occidua Cotton & Godfrey, 1938 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Divalucina occidua Cotton & Godfrey, 1938) Cotton, B. C.; Godfrey, F. K. (1938). The Molluscs of South Australia, Part 1. The Pelecypoda. South Australian Branch of the British Science Guild, Adelaide, Australia, 314 pp. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Australian part of the Indian Ocean

type locality contained in Australian part of the Indian Ocean [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Divaricella occidua (Cotton & Godfrey, 1938). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464145 on 2026-07-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-03-06 07:04:47Z

created

Taylor, John

2016-05-06 11:00:38Z

changed

Sartori, André F.

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description (of Divalucina occidua Cotton & Godfrey, 1938) Cotton, B. C.; Godfrey, F. K. (1938). The Molluscs of South Australia, Part 1. The Pelecypoda. South Australian Branch of the British Science Guild, Adelaide, Australia, 314 pp. [details]

basis of record Huber M. (2015). <i>Compendium of bivalves 2. A full-color guide to the remaining seven families. A systematic listing of 8,500 bivalve species and 10,500 synonyms.</i> Harxheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp. + 1 CD-ROM (containing chapters 5 and 6). [Tellinidae by M. Huber, A. Langleit & K. Kreipl, pp. 167-297, 564-746]. [details]

Other

additional source Taylor J. & Glover E. (2021). <i>Biology, evolution and generic review of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae</i>. London: The Ray Society [Publication 182]. 319 pp.
page(s): 201, fig. 93d [details]