WoRMS taxon details

Timoclea ovata (Pennant, 1777)

141929  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141929)

accepted
Species
Cytherea exilis Eichwald, 1830 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Pasiphae pennantia Leach, 1852 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Timoclea (Timoclea) ovata (Pennant, 1777) † · unaccepted > superseded combination
Timoclea ovata var. exilis (Eichwald, 1830) † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Timoclea ovata var. minor (Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1909) † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Venus alope Brusina, 1870 · unaccepted > nomen nudum (nomen nudum)
Venus myrrha Brusina, 1870 · unaccepted > nomen nudum (nomen nudum)
Venus ovata Pennant, 1777 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Venus ovata var. lutea Jeffreys, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)
Venus ovata var. minor Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1909 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Venus ovata Pennant, 1777) Pennant, T. (1777). British Zoology, vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea. <em>London.</em> i-viii, 1-154, pls. 1-93., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127011
page(s): 97, pl. 56 fig. 56 [details]   
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Timoclea ovata (Pennant, 1777). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141929 on 2024-03-28
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original description  (of Venus ovata Pennant, 1777) Pennant, T. (1777). British Zoology, vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea. <em>London.</em> i-viii, 1-154, pls. 1-93., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127011
page(s): 97, pl. 56 fig. 56 [details]   

original description  (of Pasiphae pennantia Leach, 1852) Leach, W. E. (1852). Molluscorum Britanniae Synopsis. A synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain arranged according to their natural affinities and anatomical structure. Van Voorst, London, viii + 376 pp. (edited posthumously by J. E. Gray). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13107076
page(s): 308 [details]   

original description  (of Venus pectinula Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, J.B. (1818). [volume 5 of] Histoire naturelle des Animaux sans Vertèbres, préséntant les caractères généraux et particuliers de ces animaux, leur distribution, leurs classes, leurs familles, leurs genres, et la citation des principales espèces qui s'y rapportent; precedes d'une Introduction offrant la determination des caracteres essentiels de l'Animal, sa distinction du vegetal et desautres corps naturels, enfin, l'Exposition des Principes fondamentaux de la Zoologie. <em>Paris, Deterville.</em> vol 5: 612 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879 [details]   

original description  (of Venus alope Brusina, 1870) Brusina, S. (1870). Ipsa Chiereghinii Conchylia, ovvero contribuzione pella Malacologia Adriatica desunta dal manoscritto descrizione de' Crostacei, de' Testacei, e de' Pesci che abitano le Lagune e Golfo Veneto, rappresentati in figure, a chiaro-scuro ed a colori dall Abate S. Chiereghini ... illustrata da S. Brusina. <em>Pisa, Biblioteca Malacologica.</em> 280 pp., available online at https://archive.org/stream/ipsachiereghini00chiegoog
page(s): 78; note: ex Chiereghini ms. [details]   

original description  (of Venus myrrha Brusina, 1870) Brusina, S. (1870). Ipsa Chiereghinii Conchylia, ovvero contribuzione pella Malacologia Adriatica desunta dal manoscritto descrizione de' Crostacei, de' Testacei, e de' Pesci che abitano le Lagune e Golfo Veneto, rappresentati in figure, a chiaro-scuro ed a colori dall Abate S. Chiereghini ... illustrata da S. Brusina. <em>Pisa, Biblioteca Malacologica.</em> 280 pp., available online at https://archive.org/stream/ipsachiereghini00chiegoog
page(s): 77-78; note: ex Chiereghini ms.  [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. lutea Jeffreys, 1864) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. 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): 2: 343 [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. trigona Jeffreys, 1864) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. 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): 343 [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. transversa Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 381 [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. marmorata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 381 [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. paucicostata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 381 [details]   

original description  (of Cytherea exilis Eichwald, 1830 †) Eichwald, E. (1830). Naturhistorische Skizze von Lithuanien, Volhynien und Podolien in geognostisch-mineralogischer, botanischer und zoologischer Hinsicht. <em>Wilna [Vilnius], Zawadzki.</em> 256 p., 3 pl., available online at https://reader.digitale-sammlungen.de/de/fs1/object/display/bsb10691419_00005.html
page(s): 205, pl. 5, fig. 20 [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. minor Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1909 †) Dollfus, G. F. & Dautzenberg, P. (1902-1920). Conchyliologie du Miocène moyen du Bassin de la Loire. 1re Partie: Pélécypodes. <em>Mémoires de la Société Géologique de France.</em> 27: 1-106 (1902); 107-162 (1904); 163-240 (1906); 241-296 (1909); 297-378 (1913); 379-500, pls 34-51 (1920)., available online at http:// https://patrimoine.sorbonne-universite.fr/idurl/1/2879
page(s): 207, pl. 11, fig. 40-47 [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. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]   

additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 369, fig. row 4, columns 1-2. [details]   

additional source Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412, available online at http://www.geokniga.org/books/14254
page(s): 176, pl. XLIII, fig. 7, 8 [details]   

identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). <i>Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola</i>. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 882-883 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Classification Abbott (1974) considers Timoclea Brown, 1827 as a subgenus of Chione Megerle van Mühlfeld, 1811. However, we follow the majority of European authors to use them both as seperate genera. [details]
LanguageName 
Danish nettegnet venusmusling  [details]
Dutch ovale venusschelp  [details]
English oval venus  [details]
German Ovale Venusmuschel  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål lammeskjell  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk lammeskjel  [details]
Swedish radiärstrimmig venusmussla  [details]