Deep-Sea taxon details
Venericardia Lamarck, 1801
137745 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137745)
accepted
Genus
- Species Venericardia africana Bartsch, 1915 accepted as Coripia elata (G. B. Sowerby III, 1892)
- Species Venericardia armilla Dall, 1903 accepted as Pleuromeris armilla (Dall, 1903) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
feminine
Lamarck, J. B. de. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719
page(s): 123 [details]
page(s): 123 [details]
Note Type species designated by Schmidt (1818,...
Type species Type species designated by Schmidt (1818, über die beste Einrichtung...: 57). Children (1823) designated Venericardia planicosta, which is invalid. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Venericardia Lamarck, 1801. Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2025) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://www.marinespecies.org/deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137745 on 2026-06-08
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2026). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Venericardia Lamarck, 1801. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137745 on 2026-06-08
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2006-09-29 11:38:53Z
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Martinez, Olga
original description
Lamarck, J. B. de. (1801). Système des animaux sans vertèbres, ou tableau général des classes, des ordres et des genres de ces animaux. <em>Published by the author and Deterville, Paris.</em> : viii + 432 pp., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/14117719
page(s): 123 [details]
additional source Maxwell, P. A. (1969). Middle Tertiary Mollusca from North Otago and South Canterbury, New Zealand, with a review of New Zealand species of <i>Venericardia</i> (Carditidae, Pelecypoda). <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Geology.</em> 6(13): 155-185, pls. 1-3.
page(s): 171 [details] Available for editors
subsequent type designation Schmidt F.C. 1818, Versuch über die beste Einrichtung zur Aufstellung: Behandlung und Aufbewahrung der verschiedenen Naturkörper und gegenṣtände der Kunst, vorzüglich der Conchylien-Sammlungen, nebst kurzer Beurtheilung der conchyliologischen Systeme und Schriften und einer tabellarischen Zusammenstellung und Vergleichung der sechs besten und neuesten conchyliologischen Systeme. Gotha, J. Perth, 252 pp. , available online at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015061903053#view=1up;seq=15
page(s): 57 [details]
page(s): 123 [details]
additional source Maxwell, P. A. (1969). Middle Tertiary Mollusca from North Otago and South Canterbury, New Zealand, with a review of New Zealand species of <i>Venericardia</i> (Carditidae, Pelecypoda). <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of New Zealand, Geology.</em> 6(13): 155-185, pls. 1-3.
page(s): 171 [details] Available for editors
subsequent type designation Schmidt F.C. 1818, Versuch über die beste Einrichtung zur Aufstellung: Behandlung und Aufbewahrung der verschiedenen Naturkörper und gegenṣtände der Kunst, vorzüglich der Conchylien-Sammlungen, nebst kurzer Beurtheilung der conchyliologischen Systeme und Schriften und einer tabellarischen Zusammenstellung und Vergleichung der sechs besten und neuesten conchyliologischen Systeme. Gotha, J. Perth, 252 pp. , available online at http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015061903053#view=1up;seq=15
page(s): 57 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type species Type species designated by Schmidt (1818, über die beste Einrichtung...: 57). Children (1823) designated Venericardia planicosta, which is invalid. [details]
