North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Myrtea W. Turton, 1822


Myrtea spinifera

AphiaID

138151 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138151)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Venus spinifera Montagu, 1803 accepted as Myrtea spinifera (Montagu, 1803) (type by monotypy)

Typetaxon of

Myrteinae Chavan, 1969

Parent

Myrteinae Chavan, 1969

Orig. name

Myrtea W. Turton, 1822

Direct children (4)
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Species Myrtea amorpha (Sturany, 1896)
Species Myrtea spinifera (Montagu, 1803)

Species Myrtea lens (A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1880) accepted as Afrolucina lens (A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1880) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Myrtea spinosa [sic] accepted as Myrtea spinifera (Montagu, 1803) (misspelling of Myrtea spinifera (Montagu, 1803))

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Turton, W. (1822). Conchylia insularum britannicarum. London: Nattali, and Leicester: Combe. xlvii + 280 pp., 20 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10982454#page/9/mode/1up
page(s): 133 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Myrtea W. Turton, 1822. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138151 on 2023-10-03

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2023). European Register of Marine Species. Myrtea W. Turton, 1822. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=138151 on 2023-10-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2015-01-23 20:03:29Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2018-06-30 10:51:39Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

[taxonomic tree]

original description Turton, W. (1822). Conchylia insularum britannicarum. London: Nattali, and Leicester: Combe. xlvii + 280 pp., 20 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10982454#page/9/mode/1up
page(s): 133 [details]

basis of record Taylor J. & Glover E. (2021). <i>Biology, evolution and generic review of the chemosymbiotic bivalve family Lucinidae</i>. London: The Ray Society [Publication 182]. 319 pp.
page(s): 113 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To ITIS


Myrtea spinifera [image from typetaxon]


Myrtea spinifera [image from typetaxon]