WoRMS taxon details
Altenaeum charcoti (E. Lamy, 1906)
876461 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:876461)
accepted
Species
Kellia lamyi Melvill & Standen, 1907 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Kellyia australis E. Lamy, 1906 · unaccepted (invalid: secondary junior homonym...)
invalid: secondary junior homonym of K. australis (Lamatck, 1818); Kellia lamyi is a replacement name
Montaguia charcoti E. Lamy, 1906 · unaccepted (original combination)
Montaguia turqueti E. Lamy, 1906 · unaccepted
Mysella charcoti (E. Lamy, 1906) · unaccepted
Tellimya flavida Preston, 1916 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Tellimya minima Thiele, 1912 · unaccepted
marine
(of Montaguia charcoti E. Lamy, 1906) Lamy E. (1906). Lamellibranches recueillis par l'Expédition Antarctique Française du Dr Charcot. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 12: 44-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.328570
page(s): 46, textfig. [details]
page(s): 46, textfig. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Altenaeum charcoti (E. Lamy, 1906). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=876461 on 2026-04-30
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Tellimya minima Thiele, 1912) Thiele, J. (1912). Die antarktischen Schnecken und Muscheln. <em>Deutsche Südpolar-Expedition, 1901-1903, im Auftrage des Reichsamtes des Innern. Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse.</em> 13, Zoologie 5(2): 185-285, pls 11-19., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11631552
page(s): 255, pl. 18, fig. 13 [details]
original description (of Tellimya flavida Preston, 1916) Preston, H. B. (1916). Descriptions of eight new species of marine Mollusca from the South Shetlands. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 18: 269-272., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222931608693847
page(s): 272, pl. 13, fig. 8 [details]
original description (of Montaguia turqueti E. Lamy, 1906) Lamy E. (1906). Lamellibranches recueillis par l'Expédition Antarctique Française du Dr Charcot. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 12: 44-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.328570
page(s): 47, textfig. [details]
original description (of Kellyia australis E. Lamy, 1906) Lamy, E. (1906). Sur quelques mollusques des Orcades du Sud. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 12: 121-126., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5021298
page(s): 124, textfigs 2 [details]
original description (of Kellia lamyi Melvill & Standen, 1907) Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1907). The marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 46 (1): 119-157, 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41729893
page(s): 149 [details]
original description (of Montaguia charcoti E. Lamy, 1906) Lamy E. (1906). Lamellibranches recueillis par l'Expédition Antarctique Française du Dr Charcot. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 12: 44-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.328570
page(s): 46, textfig. [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]
page(s): 255, pl. 18, fig. 13 [details]
original description (of Tellimya flavida Preston, 1916) Preston, H. B. (1916). Descriptions of eight new species of marine Mollusca from the South Shetlands. <em>Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (8) 18: 269-272., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/00222931608693847
page(s): 272, pl. 13, fig. 8 [details]
original description (of Montaguia turqueti E. Lamy, 1906) Lamy E. (1906). Lamellibranches recueillis par l'Expédition Antarctique Française du Dr Charcot. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 12: 44-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.328570
page(s): 47, textfig. [details]
original description (of Kellyia australis E. Lamy, 1906) Lamy, E. (1906). Sur quelques mollusques des Orcades du Sud. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 12: 121-126., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5021298
page(s): 124, textfigs 2 [details]
original description (of Kellia lamyi Melvill & Standen, 1907) Melvill, J. C. & Standen, R. (1907). The marine Mollusca of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.</em> 46 (1): 119-157, 1 pl., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41729893
page(s): 149 [details]
original description (of Montaguia charcoti E. Lamy, 1906) Lamy E. (1906). Lamellibranches recueillis par l'Expédition Antarctique Française du Dr Charcot. <em>Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 12: 44-52., available online at https://doi.org/10.5962/p.328570
page(s): 46, textfig. [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
Zettler, M. L.; Bick, A. (2025). Molluscs from a shallow bay of King George Island (Antarctica, South Shetland Islands): An annotated checklist with new distributional records. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5631(3): 401-450., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5631.3.1 [details] 
Present
Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio
Inaccurate
Introduced: alien
Containing type locality
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Mysella charcoti (E. Lamy, 1906))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Altenaeum charcoti)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Montaguia charcoti E. Lamy, 1906)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Mysella charcoti (E. Lamy, 1906))
To Malacopics (Altenaeum charcoti (E. Lamy, 1906) Antarctica, South Shetlands, Half Moon Island, Wh...
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Mysella charcoti (E. Lamy, 1906))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Altenaeum charcoti)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins) (from synonym Montaguia charcoti E. Lamy, 1906)
To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To Global Biotic Interactions (GloBI) (from synonym Mysella charcoti (E. Lamy, 1906))
To Malacopics (Altenaeum charcoti (E. Lamy, 1906) Antarctica, South Shetlands, Half Moon Island, Wh...
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Mysella charcoti (E. Lamy, 1906))