Marine Species Traits - Megapitaria squalida (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)

WoRMS taxon details

Megapitaria squalida (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)

AphiaID

714777 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:714777)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Megapitaria U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931

Original name

Cytherea squalida G. B. Sowerby I, 1835

Synonymised names

Callista squalida (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) · unaccepted

Cytherea biradiata G. B. Sowerby I, 1839 · unaccepted

Cytherea chionaea Menke, 1847 · unaccepted

Cytherea squalida G. B. Sowerby I, 1835 · unaccepted (original combination)

Macrocallista orcutti Dall, 1918 † · unaccepted (junior synonym)

Macrocallista squalida (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) · unaccepted

Venus (Cytherea) guttata Römer, 1866 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Cytherea squalida G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1835). Characters of and observations on new genera and species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 3(25): 4-7; 3(26): 21-23; 3(27): 41-43; 46-47; 3(28): 49-51; 3(30): 84-85; 3(30): 93-96; 3(31): 109-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859766
page(s): 23 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Megapitaria squalida (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=714777 on 2025-05-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-01-06 16:11:04Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Venus (Cytherea) guttata Römer, 1866) Römer, E. (1864-1869). Monographie der Molluskengattung Venus, Linné. 1. Band: subgenus Cytherea Lamarck. Cassel, Th. Fischer, 217 p., 59 pl. [pp. 1-12, pl. 1-3, 1864; pp. 13-42, pl. 4-9, 1865; pp. 43-66, pl. 10-18, 1866; pp. 67-126, pl. 19-33, 1867; pp. 127-172, pl. 34-46, 1868; pp. 173-217, pl. 47-59 and title page to vol. 1, 1869]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/11686
page(s): 52, pl. 16 fig. 2; note: in "Sectio" Callista [details]

original description (of Cytherea squalida G. B. Sowerby I, 1835) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1835). Characters of and observations on new genera and species of Mollusca and Conchifera collected by Mr. Cuming. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 3(25): 4-7; 3(26): 21-23; 3(27): 41-43; 46-47; 3(28): 49-51; 3(30): 84-85; 3(30): 93-96; 3(31): 109-110., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859766
page(s): 23 [details]

original description (of Cytherea biradiata G. B. Sowerby I, 1839) Gray, J. E. & Sowerby, G. B. I. (1839). Molluscous animals and their shells. Pp. 103-155, pls 33-34 [pp. 103-142 by J. E. Gray, 143-155 by G. B. Sowerby I]. In: The zoology of Capt. Beechey's voyage, compiled from the collections on notes made by Captain Beechey, the officers and naturalist of the expedition during a voyage to the Pacific and Behring's straits in his Majesty's ship Blossom, under the command of Captain F. W. Beechey in the years 1825, 26, 27 and 28. London pp. XII + 186 + 44 pl. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48931613
page(s): 151, pl. 43, fig. 5 [details]

original description (of Cytherea chionaea Menke, 1847) Menke, C. T. (1847). Verzeichniss einer Sendung von Conchylien von Mazatlan, mit einigen kritischen Bemerkungen. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 4: 177-191., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16292171
page(s): 190 [details]

original description (of Macrocallista orcutti Dall, 1918 †) Dall, W. H. (1918). Pleistocene fossils of Magdalena Bay, Lower California, collected by Charles Russell Orcutt. The Nautilus. 31(1): 23-26., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1772105
page(s): 24-25 [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]