North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Spisula elliptica (T. Brown, 1827)

AphiaID

140300 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140300)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Spisula J. E. Gray, 1837

Orig. name

Mactra elliptica T. Brown, 1827

Synonymised names

Mactra elliptica T. Brown, 1827 · unaccepted

Mactra gracilis Locard, 1891 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Mactra elliptica T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): Plate XV. Fig 6. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Spisula elliptica (T. Brown, 1827). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2024) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=140300 on 2024-04-16

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2024). European Register of Marine Species. Spisula elliptica (T. Brown, 1827). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=140300 on 2024-04-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2019-03-22 19:47:22Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

[taxonomic tree]

original description (of Mactra elliptica T. Brown, 1827) Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from nature. W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London. 144 pp., 52 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): Plate XV. Fig 6. [details]

original description (of Mactra gracilis Locard, 1891) Locard, A. (1891). Les coquilles marines des côtes de France. Annales de la Société Linnéenne de Lyon. 37: 1-385 [Published 31 October 1891; also published by Baillière as a book in 1892]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54577547
page(s): 266 [details]

context source (Schelde) Maris, T.; Beauchard, O.; Van Damme, S.; Van den Bergh, E.; Wijnhoven, S.; Meire, P. (2013). Referentiematrices en Ecotoopoppervlaktes Annex bij de Evaluatiemethodiek Schelde-estuarium Studie naar “Ecotoopoppervlaktes en intactness index”. Monitor Taskforce Publication Series, 2013-01. NIOZ: Yerseke. 35 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2015): Epibenthos and demersal fish monitoring data in function of wind energy development in the Belgian part of the North Sea. [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source 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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Language	Name
Dutch	ovale strandschelpelliptische strandschelp	[details]
English	elliptic trough shell	[details]
French	spisule	[details]
German	kleine Trogmuschelelliptische Trogmuschel	[details]