North Sea Benthos Survey (NSBS)

WoRMS taxon details

Sphenia binghami W. Turton, 1822

Sphenia binghami Turton, 1822Specimen from La Goulette, Tunisia (3-4 m, 30.03.2009), actual size 4.3 mm

AphiaID

140432 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140432)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Typetaxon of

Sphenia W. Turton, 1822

Parent

Sphenia W. Turton, 1822

Original name

Sphenia binghami W. Turton, 1822

Synonymised names

Mya binghami (W. Turton, 1822) · unaccepted

Mya binghami var. elongata Jeffreys, 1865 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

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): 36; pl. 3 fig. 4-5; pl. 19 fig. 3 [details]

Type data

Note Torbay, Devoon, SW England

Type locality Torbay, Devoon, SW England [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sphenia binghami W. Turton, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140432 on 2025-01-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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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): 36; pl. 3 fig. 4-5; pl. 19 fig. 3 [details]

original description (of Mya binghami var. elongata Jeffreys, 1865) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). British conchology. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 71 [details]

context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2016): Macrobenthos monitoring at long-term monitoring stations in the Belgian part of the North Sea from 2001 on. [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Yonge, C. M. (1951). Observations on Sphenia binghami Turton. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 30: 387-392., available online at http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1469/1/Observations_on_Sphenia_binghami_Turton.pdf [details] Available for editors

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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]