Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2025). A taxonomic update for "Seashells of Southern Florida – Bivalves" (Mikkelsen and Bieler, 2007) with nomenclatural notes on other bivalve species. The Nautilus. 139(1): 1-27.

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Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M.

2025

139(1): 1-27

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Our 2007 book publication "Seashells of Southern Florida – Bivalves" reported on 379 nominal extant bivalve species in the Florida Keys. Bivalve research has remained an active field and this taxonomic update addresses 196 of these nominal species, many of which have undergone generic reallocations, synonymies, or reidentifications. A list of additional species newly recorded for the Keys is provided. Prior statements about synonyms and geographic ranges are revised in view of updated information. New nomenclatural actions and taxonomic decisions include: Modiolus americanus Leach, 1815 is a nomen protectum; its subjective senior synonym, (Musculus papuanus Röding, 1798, is a nomen oblitum. (Cytherea fulminata Menke, 1828 (currently Jasypitar fulminatus) is a nomen protectum; its subjective senior synonym, Venus holosericea Gmelin, 1791, is a nomen oblitum. Evidence is provided that Parahyotissa mcgintyi Harry, 1985 (currently in Hyotissa) qualified as a nomen protectum when Huber synonymized it in 2010 under the nomen oblitum (Mytilus roseus Gmelin, 1791. Evidence is provided that Anomia simplex d’Orbigny, 1853 qualified as a nomen protectum when Huber synonymized it in 2010 under the nomen oblitum Anomia acontes J.E. Gray, 1850. Euvola marshallae Petuch and Myers, 2014 is a junior subjective synonym of Pecten (Amusium) marensis Weisbord, 1964. Brachidontes noronhensis Quintanilha, Fernandes, Guerra, Campos, and Weber, 2022, introduced as a "new name," is a nomen nudum. The declarations of nomina protecta/oblita in Huber’s 2010 Compendium of Bivalves did not fulfill the requirements of the 1999 ICZN Code. Huber’s works in 2010 and 2015 included misinterpretations of the 1999 ICZN Code, leading to numerous incorrect decisions on name priority. The 1968 Ph.D. dissertation of Stuardo is an unpublished work in the sense of the ICZN; subsequent use of the included Limidae manuscript names by Huber (2010, 2015) did not make them available.

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