Marine Species Traits - Dosinia ponderosa (J. E. Gray, 1838)

WoRMS taxon details

Dosinia ponderosa (J. E. Gray, 1838)

AphiaID

507563 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507563)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Dosinia Scopoli, 1777

Original name

Arthemis ponderosa J. E. Gray, 1838

Synonymised names

Artemis ponderosa J. E. Gray, 1838 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Arthemis ponderosa J. E. Gray, 1838 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Cytherea gigantea R. A. Philippi, 1844 · unaccepted

Dosinia (Dosinia) grandis E. T. Nelson, 1870 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Dosinia (Dosinidia) ponderosa (J. E. Gray, 1838) · unaccepted

Dosinia (Dosinidia) titan Maury, 1925 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Dosinia grandis E. T. Nelson, 1870 † · unaccepted

Dosinia titan Maury, 1925 · unaccepted

Venus cycloides A. d'Orbigny, 1846 · unaccepted (unnecessary nom. nov. pro...)

unnecessary nom. nov. pro Cytherea gigantea R. A. Philippi, 1844, by d'Orbigny treated as a secondary homonym of Venus gigantea Gmelin, 1791

Environment

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

Original description

(of Arthemis ponderosa J. E. Gray, 1838) Gray, J. E. (1838). Catalogue of the species of the genus Cytherea, of Lamarck, with the description of some new genera and species. The Analyst. 8: 302-309., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15224965
page(s): 309 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dosinia ponderosa (J. E. Gray, 1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507563 on 2025-05-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2022-12-08 18:39:36Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Arthemis ponderosa J. E. Gray, 1838) Gray, J. E. (1838). Catalogue of the species of the genus Cytherea, of Lamarck, with the description of some new genera and species. The Analyst. 8: 302-309., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15224965
page(s): 309 [details]

original description (of Dosinia grandis E. T. Nelson, 1870 †) Nelson, E. T. (1870). On the molluscan fauna of the later Tertiary of Peru. Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Science. 2: 186-206, pls 6-7., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7502942
page(s): 201 [details]

original description (of Venus cycloides A. d'Orbigny, 1846) Orbigny, A. D. d'. (1834-1847). Voyage dans l'Amérique méridionale (le Brésil, la république orientale de l'Uruguay, la République argentine, la Patagonie, la république du Chili, la république de Bolivia, la république du Pérou), exécuté pendant les années 1826, 1827, 1828, 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832 et 1833. Tome 5(3) Mollusques. pp. i-xliii, 1-758, 85 plates [pls 1-2, 1834; pp. 1-104, pls 3-7, 10, 12, 1835; pp. 105-184, pls 8-9, 11, 13-23, 25-28, 1836; pls 24, 29-43, 41bis, 45-46, 1837; pp. 185-376, pls 44, 47-52, 55, 1838; pls 54, 56-65, 1839; pl. 66, 1840; pp. 377-488, pls 53, 67-77, 80, 1841; pp. 489-758, 1846; pls 78-79, 82-85, 1847]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49211253
page(s): 562 [details]

original description (of Cytherea gigantea R. A. Philippi, 1844) Philippi, R. A. (1842-1850). Abbildungen und Beschreibungen neuer oder wenig gekannter Conchylien unter Mithülfe mehrerer deutscher Conchyliologen. Cassel, T. Fischer. Vol. 1: 1-20 [1842], 21-76 [1843], 77-186 [1844], 187-204 [1845]; Vol. 2: 1-64 [1845], 65-152 [1846], 153-232 [1847] ; Vol. 3: 1-50 [1847], 51-82 [1848], 1-88 [1849], 89-138 [1850]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/41582
page(s): vol. 1 p. 171; note: name credited to Sowerby [details]

original description (of Dosinia (Dosinidia) titan Maury, 1925 †) Maury, C. J. (1925). A further contribution to the paleontology of Trinidad (Miocene Horizons). Bulletins of American Paleontology. 10(42): 153-402, pls. 1-43., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/32509152
page(s): 291-293, pl. 24, figs. 1-2, pl. 25, fig. fig. 3 [details]

basis of record 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]

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.
page(s): 825, pl. 257 [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 Woodring, W. P. (1945). Northern limit of Dosinia ponderosa. The Nautilus. 59(1): 34., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8523527 [details]