North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

WoRMS taxon details

Ensis Schumacher, 1817

AphiaID

138333 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138333)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Ensis magnus Schumacher, 1817 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Cultellinae A. M. Davies, 1935

Original name

Ensis Schumacher, 1817

Synonymised names

Ensatella Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (synonym)

Direct children (25)

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Species Ensis californicus Dall, 1899
Species Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Ensis goreensis (Clessin, 1888)
Species Ensis leei M. Huber, 2015
Species Ensis loboi Signorelli, Trovant & Márquez, 2022
Species Ensis macha (Molina, 1782)
Species Ensis magnus Schumacher, 1817
Species Ensis megistus Pilsbry & T. L. McGinty, 1943
Species Ensis minor (Chenu, 1843)
Species Ensis myrae S. S. Berry, 1953
Species Ensis nitidus (Clessin, 1888)
Species Ensis siliqua (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Ensis terranovensis Vierna & Martínez-Lage, 2012
Species Ensis tropicalis Hertlein & A. M. Strong, 1955
Subgenus Ensis (Occidentis) Dansey, 2021 (unaccepted > unavailable name, no diagnosis; no type species designation)
Subgenus Ensis (Orientem) Dansey, 2021 (unavailable name (no diagnosis; no type species designation))
Species Ensis americanus (A. Gould, 1870) accepted as Ensis leei M. Huber, 2015 (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Ensis arcuatus (Jeffreys, 1865) accepted as Ensis magnus Schumacher, 1817
Species Ensis coseli Vierna, 2014 accepted as Ensis megistus coseli Vierna, 2014 (original rank)
Species Ensis directus (Conrad, 1844) sensu Abbott, 1954 accepted as Ensis leei M. Huber, 2015
Species Ensis luzonicus Dunker, 1862 accepted as Ensis macha (Molina, 1782) (Synonym, juvenile specimen of Ensis macha)
Species Ensis minor Dall, 1899 accepted as Ensis coseli Vierna, 2014 accepted as Ensis megistus coseli Vierna, 2014 (invalid: junior secondary homonym of Ensis minor (Chenu, 1843); E. coseli is a replacement name)
Species Ensis phaxoides Van Urk, 1964 accepted as Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Ensis sicula Van Urk, 1964 accepted as Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Species Ensis siculus van Urk, 1964 accepted as Ensis minor (Chenu, 1843) (dubious synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 143 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Ensis Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138333 on 2024-12-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2013-01-19 07:19:08Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-03-06 18:16:55Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2023-03-08 19:33:09Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

2024-02-09 09:01:38Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

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original description Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 143 [details]

original description (of Ensatella Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 365 [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]

basis of record Cosel R. von, 2009. The razor shells of the eastern Atlantic, part 2. Pharidae II: the genus Ensis Schumacher, 1817 (Bivalvia, Solenoidea). Basteria, 73: 9-56 , available online at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/download?type=document&docid=597354 [details]

additional source Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 107 [details]

additional source Holme, N. A. (1951). The identification of British species of the genus Ensis Schumacher (Lamellibranchiata). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 29(3): 639-647., available online at http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1432/1/The_identification_of_British_species_of_the_genus_Ensis_Schumacher.pdf [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]