WoRMS taxon details
Nomenclatureoriginal description
Deshayes, G. P. (1856-1860). <i>Description des animaux sans vertèbres découverts dans le bassin de Paris, pour servir de supplément à la description des coquilles fossiles des environs de Paris, comprenant une revue générale de toutes les espèces actuellement connues</i>. Tome premier. <i>Mollusques acéphalés dimyaires</i>. 1-912, pls 1-87. Paris, Baillière. [1-80, pls 1-10 (1856); 81-392, pls 11, 11bis, 12-49 (1857); 393-704, pls 16bis, 50-87 (1858); 705-912 (1860)]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13095604 page(s): 542 [details]
original description
(of Anisodonta (Austrosportella) Ponder, 1971) Ponder, W.F. (1971). Some New Zealand and subantarctic bivalves of the Cyamiacea and Leptonacea with descriptions of new taxa. <em>Records of the Dominion Museum 7: 119–141.</em> page(s): 130 [details]
original description
(of Tahunanuia A. W. B. Powell, 1952) Powell, A. W. B. (1952). New Zealand molluscan systematics, with descriptions of new species. Part 1. <em>Records of the Auckland Institute and Museum.</em> 4: 169-185., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/60717671 page(s): 170 [details]
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Grammatical gender Gender feminine, despite having originally been treated as neuter by Deshayes. The ending -donta comes from the Greek odon or odous (tooth), which is masculine. However, according to Art. 30.1.3. “a genus-group name that is a Greek word latinized with change of ending […] takes the gender normally appropriate to the changed ending or the Latin suffix. [...] Names ending in the Latin gender ending -a, latinized from the Greek ending -on are feminine”. [details]
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