North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Anadara transversa (Say, 1822)

AphiaID

156734 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156734)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Anadara J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Arca transversa Say, 1822

Synonymised names

Arca sulcosa van Hyning, 1946 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Arca transversa Say, 1822 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Arca transversa Say, 1822) Say, T. (1822). An account of some of the marine shells of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 2(1): 221-248; 2(2): 257-276, 302-325., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36831411
page(s): 269 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Anadara transversa (Say, 1822). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156734 on 2026-08-08

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Anadara transversa (Say, 1822). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=156734 on 2026-08-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-19 14:10:07Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2010-03-31 06:40:42Z

checked

Rosenberg, Gary

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original description (of Arca sulcosa van Hyning, 1946) Van Hyning, T. (1946). A new Arca from Florida. Mollusca, Tavares. 1 (8): 112. [details]

original description (of Arca transversa Say, 1822) Say, T. (1822). An account of some of the marine shells of the United States. Journal of the Academy of Natural Sciences, Philadelphia. 2(1): 221-248; 2(2): 257-276, 302-325., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/36831411
page(s): 269 [details]

context source (Introduced species) Katsanevakis, S.; Bogucarskis, K.; Gatto, F.; Vandekerkhove, J.; Deriu, I.; Cardoso A.S. (2012). Building the European Alien Species Information Network (EASIN): a novel approach for the exploration of distributed alien species data. BioInvasions Records. 1: 235-245., available online at http://easin.jrc.ec.europa.eu [details] Available for editors

basis of record Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Albano, P. G.; Rinaldi, E.; Evangelisti, F.; Kuan, M.; Sabelli, B. (2009). On the identity and origin of Anadara demiri (Bivalvia: Arcidae). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 89 (6): 1289-1298., available online at https://doi.org/10.1017/S0025315409000551
note: Anadara transversa determined as the valid name for the Mediterranean alien species previously known as A. demiri [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]

additional source Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A., A. Marchini, G. Cantone, A. Castelli, C. Chimenz, M. Cormaci, C. Froglia, G. Furnari, M.C. Gambi, G. Giaccone, A. Giangrande, C. Gravil, F. Mastrototaro, C. Mazziotti, L. Orsi-Relini & S. Piraino. (2010). Alien species along the Italian coasts: an overview. Biological Invasions. 13(1): 215-237., available online at https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-010-9803-y [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Synonymy Albano et al. (2009) showed that Anadara demiri (Piani, 1981), originally described from the Turkish coast and long believed to be introduced from an unknown Indo-Pacific origin, is a synonym of the Western Atlantic Anadara transversa [details]

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