African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Brachidontes Swainson, 1840

AfReMaS taxon details

Brachidontes Swainson, 1840

AphiaID

138215 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138215)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Brachidontinae F. Nordsieck, 1969

Original name

Mytilus (Brachidontes) Swainson, 1840

Synonymised names

Brachyodontes Herrmannsen, 1846 · unaccepted > unjustified emendation

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Species Brachidontes niger (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Brachidontes pharaonis (P. Fischer, 1870)
Species Brachidontes puniceus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Brachidontes undulatus (Dunker, 1857)
Species Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848)
Species Brachidontes virgiliae (Barnard, 1964)
Species Brachidontes australis (E. von Martens, 1879) accepted as Gregariella australis (E. von Martens, 1879) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Brachidontes demissus (Dillwyn, 1817) accepted as Geukensia demissa (Dillwyn, 1817) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Brachidontes semistriatus (Krauss, 1848) accepted as Brachidontes variabilis (Krauss, 1848)
Species Brachidontes setiger (Dunker, 1857) sensu Kuroda, 1932 accepted as Dentimodiolus subsulcatus (Dunker, 1857) (unaccepted > superseded combination, misapplication)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Original description

(of ) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 384 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Brachidontes Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138215 on 2026-07-23

Regional species database citation

Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Brachidontes Swainson, 1840. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138215 on 2026-07-23

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2006-03-21 14:26:07Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2012-06-21 23:44:14Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2018-03-23 21:34:07Z

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Gofas, Serge

2018-11-12 18:33:18Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-11-23 07:56:31Z

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Vinarski, Maxim

2025-05-21 14:21:56Z

changed

Schneider, Simon

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original description (of Brachyodontes Herrmannsen, 1846) Herrmannsen, A. N. (1846-1852). Indicis Generum Malacozoorum primordia. Fischer, Cassel. Vol. 1: i-xxviii, 1-637 pp. [i-xxviii + 1-104: 1 Sep 1846; 105-232: 1 Dec 1846; 233-360: 1 Mar 1847; 361-488: 18 Apr 1847; 489-616: 25 May 1847; 617-637: 17 Jul 1847]; 2: 1-717, xxix-xlii pp. [1-104: 17 Jul 1847; 105-232: 8 Sep 1847; 233-352: 7 Dec 1847; 353-492: 18 Feb 1848; 493-612: Feb 1849; 613-717 + xxix-xliii: Mar 1849]; Supplementa et corrigenda: i-v, 1-140 pp. [Dec 1852]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10695423
page(s): 1: 121 [details]

original description (of ) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 384 [details]

taxonomy source Tan, S. H. M.; Wells, F. E.; Lukehurst, S. S.; Strong, E. E.; Sanpanich, K.; Duangdee, T.; Ambarwati, R.; Tan, K. S. (2024). Unravelling the Brachidontes variabilis species complex (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) of the Indo-Pacific region. Journal of Molluscan Studies. 90(4): Published online 5 November., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/mollus/eyae037 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. Revista peruana de biología. 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]

basis of record Valentich-Scott, P.; Coan, E. V.; Zelaya, D. (2020). Bivalve seashells of western South America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Punta Aguja, Peru to Isla Chiloé, Chile. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. vii + 593 pp.
page(s): 103 [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]

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