Marine Species Traits - Margaritifera menkei (F. C. L. Koch & Dunker, 1837) †

Traits name details

Margaritifera menkei (F. C. L. Koch & Dunker, 1837) †

AphiaID

1556579 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1556579)

Classification

Status

uncertain > taxon inquirendum

Rank

Species

Parent

Margaritifera Schumacher, 1815

Original name

Unio menkei F. C. L. Koch & Dunker, 1837 †

Synonymised names

Unio menkei F. C. L. Koch & Dunker, 1837 † · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

~~marine~~, ~~brackish~~, fresh, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

fossil only

Original description

(of Unio menkei F. C. L. Koch & Dunker, 1837 †) Koch, F. C. L.; Dunker, W. (1837). Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Norddeutschen Oolithgebildes und dessen Versteinerungen. Mit 7 nach der Natur gezeichneten Tafeln. Oehme und Müller, Braunschweig, pp. 64, 7 pls., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=uqhAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover
page(s): 58, pl. 7, fig. 1 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Margaritifera menkei (F. C. L. Koch & Dunker, 1837) †. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1556579 on 2025-05-17

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Margaritifera menkei (F. C. L. Koch & Dunker, 1837) †. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1556579 on 2025-05-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2022-01-07 07:40:31Z

created

Neubauer, Thomas A.

2022-08-29 07:11:35Z

changed

Neubauer, Thomas A.

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Sources (3)

original description (of Unio menkei F. C. L. Koch & Dunker, 1837 †) Koch, F. C. L.; Dunker, W. (1837). Beiträge zur Kenntniss des Norddeutschen Oolithgebildes und dessen Versteinerungen. Mit 7 nach der Natur gezeichneten Tafeln. Oehme und Müller, Braunschweig, pp. 64, 7 pls., available online at https://books.google.com/books?id=uqhAAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover
page(s): 58, pl. 7, fig. 1 [details]

basis of record Munt, M.C.; Delvene, G.; Sha, J.-G. (2012). Review of the Cretaceous non-marine Mollusca and their stratigraphical distribution in Europe <em>Journal of Stratigraphy</em>. 36(2): 314-323 [details]

status source Araujo, R.; Schneider, S.; Roe, K. J.; Erpenbeck, D.; Machordom, A. (2016). The origin and phylogeny of Margaritiferidae (Bivalvia, Unionoida): a synthesis of molecular and fossil data. <em>Zoologica Scripta.</em> 46(3): 289-307., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/zsc.12217 [details]