Marine Species Traits - Leukoma Römer, 1857

Traits taxon details

Leukoma Römer, 1857

AphiaID

492481 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:492481)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Venerinae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Venus (Leukoma) Römer, 1857

Synonymised names

Protothaca Dall, 1902 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Direct children (26)

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Species Leukoma andytani Thach, 2023
Species Leukoma asperrima (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
Species Leukoma beili (Olsson, 1961)
Species Leukoma columbiensis (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
Species Leukoma crassicosta (Deshayes, 1835)
Species Leukoma decussata (Deshayes, 1853)
Species Leukoma ecuadoriana (Olsson, 1961)
Species Leukoma euglypta (G. B. Sowerby III, 1914)
Species Leukoma granulata (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Leukoma grata (Say, 1831)
Species Leukoma histrionica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1835)
Species Leukoma jedoensis (Lischke, 1874)
Species Leukoma jobanica (Yokoyama, 1924) †
Species Leukoma laciniata (P. P. Carpenter, 1864)
Species Leukoma lima (G. B. Sowerby II, 1852)
Species Leukoma metodon (Pilsbry & H. N. Lowe, 1932)
Species Leukoma pectorina (Lamarck, 1818)
Species Leukoma pertincta (Dall, 1902)
Species Leukoma restorationensis (Frizzell, 1930)
Species Leukoma staleyi (Gabb, 1866) †
Species Leukoma staminea (Conrad, 1837)
Species Leukoma subrostrata (Lamarck, 1818)
Species Leukoma sugillata (Reeve, 1863)
Species Leukoma thaca (Molina, 1782)
Species Leukoma tungthanhorum Thach, 2024
Species Leukoma antiqua (P. P. King, 1832) accepted as Ameghinomya antiqua (P. P. King, 1832)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

(of ) Römer E. (1857). Kritische Untersuchung der Arten des Mollusken-Geschlechts Venus bei Linné und Gmelin, mit Berücksichtigung der später beschriebenen Arten. Marburg. xiii + 135 p. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44076
page(s): 17 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Leukoma Römer, 1857. Accessed through: Marine Species Traits editorial board (2025) Marine Species Traits at: https://www.marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492481 on 2026-09-24

Thematic species database citation

Marine Species Traits editorial board (2026). Marine Species Traits. Leukoma Römer, 1857. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/traits/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492481 on 2026-09-24

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-07-31 13:00:00Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2011-03-19 11:16:20Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-06-18 10:11:30Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-06-21 10:10:14Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-01-09 19:51:35Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

2025-01-09 01:42:40Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

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original description (of ) Römer E. (1857). Kritische Untersuchung der Arten des Mollusken-Geschlechts Venus bei Linné und Gmelin, mit Berücksichtigung der später beschriebenen Arten. Marburg. xiii + 135 p. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44076
page(s): 17 [details]

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]

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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Leukoma)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Protothaca) (from synonym Protothaca Dall, 1902)
To Genbank
To Genbank (from synonym Protothaca Dall, 1902)