North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Meretrix Lamarck, 1799

AphiaID

204011 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204011)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Meretricinae J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Meretrix Lamarck, 1799

Synonymised names

Cytherea Lamarck, 1805 · unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Cytherea...)

junior homonym of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794 [Diptera] and Cytherea Röding, 1798

Venus (Cytherea) Lamarck, 1805 · unaccepted

Direct children (4)

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Subgenus Meretrix (Pitar) Römer, 1857 accepted as Pitar Römer, 1857
1. Species Meretrix (Pitar) mediterranea Dautzenberg, 1891 accepted as Pitar mediterraneus (Aradas & Benoit, 1872) (synonym)
Species Meretrix chione (Linnaeus, 1758) accepted as Callista chione (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Meretrix rudis (Poli, 1795) accepted as Pitar rudis (Poli, 1795)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 85 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Meretrix Lamarck, 1799. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=204011 on 2026-06-05

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Meretrix Lamarck, 1799. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=204011 on 2026-06-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2006-09-25 06:54:45Z

changed

Martinez, Olga

2011-08-13 20:38:52Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-07-28 08:17:38Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-06-28 14:33:01Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description Lamarck, J.B.M. (1799). Prodrome d'une nouvelle classification des coquilles, comprenant une rédaction appropriée des caractères géneriques, et l'établissement d'un grand nombre de genres nouveaux. Mémoires de la Société d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. 1: 63-91., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13585626
page(s): 85 [details]

original description (of Cytherea Lamarck, 1805) Lamarck [J.B.P.A. de]. (1805). Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. 7: 53-62, 130-139 [December 1805]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48531894
page(s): 132 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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

Unreviewed

Eben (1884, figuur 24)

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