Marine Species Traits - Sphaerium patella (A. Gould, 1850)

Traits taxon details

Sphaerium patella (A. Gould, 1850)

AphiaID

857215 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:857215)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777

Original name

Cyclas patella A. Gould, 1850

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Gould, A. A. (1850). [descriptions of new species of shells from the United States Exploring Expedition]. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 3: 151-156, 169–172, 214-218, 252–256, 275–278, 292–296, 309–312, 343–348., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870453
page(s): 292 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sphaerium patella (A. Gould, 1850). Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857215 on 2025-05-21

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025). Marine Species Traits. Sphaerium patella (A. Gould, 1850). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=857215 on 2025-05-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2015-10-16 11:46:27Z

created

Bieler, Rüdiger

2022-05-12 16:43:10Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

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Sources (5)
Attributes (4)

original description (of ) Gould, A. A. (1850). [descriptions of new species of shells from the United States Exploring Expedition]. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 3: 151-156, 169–172, 214-218, 252–256, 275–278, 292–296, 309–312, 343–348., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870453
page(s): 292 [details]

basis of record Mackie, G. L. (2007). Biology of freshwater corbiculid and sphaeriid clams of North America. Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin New Series. 15 (3: i-ix): 1-436. [details]

additional source InvertEBase. (2015). Authority files of U.S. and Canadian land and freshwater mollusks developed for the InvertEBase project (invertebase.org). [details]

additional source Graf, D.; Cummings, K. (2019). Musselp database: The Freshwater Mussels (Unionoida) of the World (and other less consequential bivalves). , available online at http://mussel-project.uwsp.edu/ [details]

additional source Herrington, H. B. (1958). Sphaerium nitidum and S. patella. The Nautilus. 72(1): 10-11., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8521041 [details]

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