North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Venus gallina Linnaeus, 1758

AphiaID

151596 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151596)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Chamelea gallina (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Type taxon of

Chamelea Mörch, 1853
Ortygia T. Brown, 1827
Venus (Chamelea) Mörch, 1853

Parent

Venus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Venus gallina Linnaeus, 1758

Direct children (7)

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Variety Venus gallina var. alba Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 accepted as Chamelea gallina (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Variety Venus gallina var. articulata Pallary, 1900 accepted as Chamelea gallina (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Variety Venus gallina var. flava Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 accepted as Chamelea gallina (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Variety Venus gallina var. gibba Jeffreys, 1864 accepted as Chamelea striatula (da Costa, 1778)
Variety Venus gallina var. major Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 accepted as Chamelea gallina (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Variety Venus gallina var. minor Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893 accepted as Chamelea gallina (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Variety Venus gallina var. triangularis Jeffreys, 1864 accepted as Chamelea striatula (da Costa, 1778)

Environment

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

Original description

Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 685 [details] Available for editors

Type data

Note Mediterranean Sea

Type locality Mediterranean Sea [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Venus gallina Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151596 on 2026-05-15

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Venus gallina Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=151596 on 2026-05-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-06 17:26:17Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-11-19 08:29:14Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2024-07-27 19:52:48Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 685 [details] Available for editors

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

From editor or global species database

Type locality Mediterranean Sea [details]

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (252 publications)
To GenBank (208 nucleotides; 113 proteins)
To PESI
To ITIS