Marine Species Traits - Anadara formosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)

WoRMS taxon details

Anadara formosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)

AphiaID

504309 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:504309)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Anadara J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Arca formosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1833

Synonymised names

Anadara auricula F. R. Bernard, 1983 · unaccepted

Arca auriculata G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Arca...)

invalid: junior homonym of Arca auriculata Lamarck, 1819; Arca aviculaeformis and A. auricula are both replacement names

Arca aviculaeformis Nyst, 1848 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Arca aviculoides Reeve, 1844 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Arca...)

invalid: junior homonym of Arca aviculoides de Koninck, 1842

Arca formosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Arca formosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1834). [Characters of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1833: 16-22, 34-38 [17 May]; 52-56 [24 May]; 70-74 [20 September]; 82–85 [8 September]; 134-139. [16 April 1834]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859474
page(s): 20 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Anadara formosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504309 on 2025-05-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Anadara auricula F. R. Bernard, 1983) Bernard, F. R. (1983). Catalogue of the living Bivalvia of the eastern Pacific Ocean: Bering Strait to Cape Horn. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 61: i-vii, 1-102., available online at http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/22922.pdf [details] Available for editors

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original description (of Arca auriculata G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1834). [Characters of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1833: 16-22, 34-38 [17 May]; 52-56 [24 May]; 70-74 [20 September]; 82–85 [8 September]; 134-139. [16 April 1834]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859474
page(s): 20 [details]

original description (of Arca aviculaeformis Nyst, 1848) Nyst P. H. J. (1848). Tableau synoptique et synonymique des espèces vivantes et fossiles de la familie des Arcacées. pt. 1 Genre Arca. Mémoires de l'Académie Royale des Sciences, des Lettres et des Beaux-Arts de Belgique : 22: 1-79, available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2885636 [details]

original description (of Arca aviculoides Reeve, 1844) Reeve, L. A. (1843-1844). Monograph of the genus Arca. In: Conchologia Iconica, or, illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 2, pl. 1-17 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pl. 1-2: December 1843; 3-4: January 1844; 5-8: February 1844; 9-12: March 1844; 13-14: April 1844; 15-16: May 1844; 17: June 1844]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8937002
page(s): Sp. 63 [details]

original description (of Arca formosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1834). [Characters of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1833: 16-22, 34-38 [17 May]; 52-56 [24 May]; 70-74 [20 September]; 82–85 [8 September]; 134-139. [16 April 1834]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859474
page(s): 20 [details]

basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]

Taxonomy

redescription 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]

Other

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. Revista peruana de biología. 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]