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Nomenclatureoriginal description
Römer E. (1857). Kritische Untersuchung der Arten des Mollusken-Geschlechts <i>Venus</i> bei Linné und Gmelin, mit Berücksichtigung der später beschriebenen Arten. Marburg. xiii + 135 p. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44076
page(s): 15 [details]
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(of Pitar (Nanopitar) Rehder, 1943) Rehder, H. A. (1943). New marine mollusks from the Antillean Region. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 93(3161): 187-203, pls 19-20., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7294281
page(s): 188 [details]
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(of Pitaria Dall, 1902) Dall, W. H. (1902). Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American Recent species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 26 (1312): 335-412., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7612547
page(s): 353-354; note: unjustified emendation [details]
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(of Pitar (Prorapitar) M. Huber, 2010) 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)
page(s): 731 [details]
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(of Caryatis Römer, 1862) Römer E. (1862). Kritische Uebersicht der Arten aus der Cythereen-gruppe <i>Caryatis</i> Römer (Pitar olim). <em>Malakozoologische Blätter.</em> 9: 58-86., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15860659
page(s): 60; note: as "Sectio" of Venus (Cytherea) [details]
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(of Cytherea (Chionella) Cossmann, 1886 †) Cossmann M. (1886). Catalogue illustré des coquilles fossiles de l'Eocène des environs de Paris. <em>Annales de la Société Royale Malacologique de Belgique.</em> 21: 17-186 (reprint paginated 3-174), pl. 1-8., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/5635834
page(s): 117 [details]
original description
(of Callista (Calpitaria) Jukes-Browne, 1908) Jukes-Browne, A.J. (1908). On the genera of Veneridae represented in the Cretaceous and older Tertiary deposits. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 8(3): 148-177., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32058345
page(s): 155 [details]
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(of Pitaria (Pitarina) Jukes-Browne, 1913) Jukes-Browne, A. J. (1913). On <i>Callista</i>, <i>Amiantis</i>, and <i>Pitaria</i>. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 10(6): 335-347., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15237336
page(s): 346 [details]
original description
(of Paradione Dall, 1909 †) Dall W.H. (1909). Paradione, n.n., vice Chionella. <em>Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London.</em> 8(4): 197.
page(s): 197 [details]
original description
(of Pitaria (Neogenella) L. Krishtofovich, 1968 †) Zhidkova, L. S.; Kuzina, I. N.; Lautenschläger, F. G.; Popova, L. A. (1968). Atlas mollyuskov verkhnego miotsena i pliotsena Sakhalina [Atlas of the mollusks of the Upper Miocene and Pliocene of Sakhalin]. Nauka, Moskva, 180 pp. + 50 pls.
page(s): 109 [details] Available for editors  [request]
Taxonomyredescription
Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]
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Grammatical gender should be masculine in application of Art. 30.2 of ICZN; Römer did not make any specification on grammatical gender except for a statement that he had taken the name from Adanson's (1757) "le Pitar", which is masculine; otherwise if gender of an arbitrary combination of letters is not specified it should anyway be treated as masculine. Nevertheless there is an extensive usage for the name in feminine gender, Poirier (1954, "An up-to-date systematic list of 3200 seashells from Greenland to Texas: translation, explanation, and gender of their names") wrote "Every conchologist, however, considers Pitar as feminine, and I would not change the gender of this arbitrarily formed word."
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