North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Loripes lacteus (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

717013 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:717013)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Tellina lactea Linnaeus, 1758

Rank

Species

Parent

Loripes Poli, 1791

Original name

Tellina lactea Linnaeus, 1758

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Variety Loripes lacteus var. angulata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896 accepted as Loripes orbiculatus Poli, 1795 (synonym)
Variety Loripes lacteus var. lenticularis Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896 accepted as Loripes orbiculatus Poli, 1795 (synonym)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Tellina lactea Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 676 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Loripes lacteus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=717013 on 2026-09-10

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Loripes lacteus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=717013 on 2026-09-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-02-01 12:30:49Z

created

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-12-03 19:06:03Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2025-01-17 17:00:22Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of Tellina lactea Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 676 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (143 publications)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Loripes lacteus)
To PESI