WoRMS taxon details
original description
Römer E. (1857). Kritische Untersuchung der Arten des Mollusken-Geschlechts <i>Venus</i> bei Linné und Gmelin, mit Berücksichtigung der später beschriebenen Arten. Marburg. xiii + 135 p. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/44076 page(s): 15 [details]
original description
(of Pitaria Dall, 1902) Dall, W. H. (1902). Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American Recent species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 26 (1312): 335-412., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7612547 page(s): 353-354; note: unjustified emendation [details]
original description
(of Pitar (Nanopitar) Rehder, 1943) Rehder, H. A. (1943). New marine mollusks from the Antillean Region. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 93(3161): 187-203, pls 19-20., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7294281 page(s): 188 [details]
original description
(of Pitarina Jukes-Browne, 1913) Jukes-Browne, A. J. 1913. On Callista, Amiantis, and Pitaria. Proceedings of the Malacological Society of London 10: 335-347. page(s): 346 [details]
original description
(of Caryatis Römer, 1862) Römer E. (1862). Kritische Uebersicht der Arten aus der Cythereen-gruppe <i>Caryatis</i> Römer (Pitar olim). <em>Malakozoologische Blätter.</em> 9: 58-86., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15860659 page(s): 58; note: as "Sectio" of Venus (Cytherea) [details]
context source (PeRMS)
Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]
redescription
Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Grammatical gender should be masculine in application of Art. 30.2 of ICZN; Römer did not make any specification on grammatical gender except for a statement that he had taken the name from Adanson's (1757) "le Pitar", which is masculine; otherwise if gender of an arbitrary combination of letters is not specified it should anyway be treated as masculine. Nevertheless there is an extensive usage for the name in feminine gender, Poirier (1954, "An up-to-date systematic list of 3200 seashells from Greenland to Texas: translation, explanation, and gender of their names") wrote "Every conchologist, however, considers Pitar as feminine, and I would not change the gender of this arbitrarily formed word."
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