WoRMS name details
Ostrea mordax var. cornucopiaeformis Saville-Kent, 1893
546457 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:546457)
unaccepted
Variety
marine
Saville-Kent W (1893) The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its products and potentialities, pp. 1-387, pls. 1-48, chromo pls. 1-16. Allen & Co., London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10697730
page(s): 248, chromo-pl. 14 figs 3-4 [details]
page(s): 248, chromo-pl. 14 figs 3-4 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Ostrea mordax var. cornucopiaeformis Saville-Kent, 1893. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=546457 on 2026-07-10
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Nomenclature
original description
Saville-Kent W (1893) The Great Barrier Reef of Australia; its products and potentialities, pp. 1-387, pls. 1-48, chromo pls. 1-16. Allen & Co., London., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10697730
page(s): 248, chromo-pl. 14 figs 3-4 [details]
basis of record 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]
page(s): 248, chromo-pl. 14 figs 3-4 [details]
basis of record 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]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Lukehurst, S. S.; Tan, S. K.; Tan, K. S.; Dehm, J.; Hewavitharane, C.; Wells, F. E. (2026). Clarifying the identities of <i>Saccostrea scyphophilla</i> (Péron & Lesueur, 1807) and <i>S. mordax</i> (Gould, 1850) (Bivalvia: Ostreidae) from the Indo-Pacific. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5799(1): 1-31., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5799.1.1
page(s): 13 [details] Available for editors
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page(s): 13 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
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): 400, pl. 7 fig. 9 [details]
page(s): 400, pl. 7 fig. 9 [details]
