Marine Species Traits - Tawera torresiana (E. A. Smith, 1884)

WoRMS taxon details

Tawera torresiana (E. A. Smith, 1884)

AphiaID

507913 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507913)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Tawera Marwick, 1927

Original name

Venus torresiana E. A. Smith, 1884

Synonymised names

Chamelea torresiana (E. A. Smith, 1884) · unaccepted

Venus torresiana E. A. Smith, 1884 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Venus torresiana E. A. Smith, 1884) Smith, E. A. (1884). Mollusca. pp. 34-116; 487-508 in: Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H. M. S. Alert 1881-2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia; Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London: The Trustees [of the British Museum (Natural History)]. xxv, 684 pp., 54 plates. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63054
page(s): 94, pl. 6, figs M, M2. [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef

type locality contained in Torres Strait Northern Great Barrier Reef [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tawera torresiana (E. A. Smith, 1884). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507913 on 2025-05-28

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2011-03-14 19:17:39Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-03-19 11:16:20Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Venus torresiana E. A. Smith, 1884) Smith, E. A. (1884). Mollusca. pp. 34-116; 487-508 in: Report on the zoological collections made in the Indo-Pacific Ocean during the voyage of H. M. S. Alert 1881-2. Part I. The collections from Melanesia; Part II. Collections from the western Indian Ocean. London: The Trustees [of the British Museum (Natural History)]. xxv, 684 pp., 54 plates. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/63054
page(s): 94, pl. 6, figs M, M2. [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)
page(s): 373, fig. row 2, column 1. [details]

Present

Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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