African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Musculus Röding, 1798

AphiaID

138225 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138225)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Musculinae Iredale, 1939

Parent

Crenellinae J. E. Gray, 1840

Original name

Musculus Röding, 1798

Synonymised names

Lanistina J. E. Gray, 1847 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

Modiolarca J. E. Gray, 1842 · unaccepted > superseded rank

Modiolaria Lovén, 1846 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

Musculus (Modiolarca) J. E. Gray, 1842 · alternative representation

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Species Musculus coenobitus (Vaillant, 1865)
Species Musculus costulatus (Risso, 1826)
Species Musculus cumingianus (Reeve, 1857)
Species Musculus discors (Linnaeus, 1767)
Species Musculus imus (Bartsch, 1915)
Species Musculus subpictus (Cantraine, 1835)
Species Musculus cuneatus (A. A. Gould, 1861) accepted as Musculus coenobitus (Vaillant, 1865) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Musculus difficilis (Deshayes, 1863) accepted as Gregariella difficilis (Deshayes, 1863)
Species Musculus strigatus (Hanley, 1843) accepted as Mytella strigata (Hanley, 1843) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
Species Musculus virgiliae Barnard, 1964 accepted as Brachidontes virgiliae (Barnard, 1964) (original combination)
Subgenus Musculus (Modiolarca) J. E. Gray, 1842 represented as Musculus Röding, 1798

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 157 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Musculus Röding, 1798. 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=138225 on 2026-10-05

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. Musculus Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138225 on 2026-10-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2013-11-07 15:19:39Z

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Gofas, Serge

2018-03-23 21:34:07Z

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Gofas, Serge

2019-08-11 22:27:57Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2024-10-08 23:01:11Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2025-02-23 18:21:14Z

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Vinarski, Maxim

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original description Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 157 [details]

original description (of Modiolarca J. E. Gray, 1842) Gray, J. E. (1842). Molluscs. Pp. 48-92, in: Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum, edition 44. British Museum. London. iv + 308 p. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55295773
page(s): 92 [details]

original description (of Lanistina J. E. Gray, 1847) Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyma and types. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 199 [details]

original description (of Modiolaria Lovén, 1846) Robert E. 1838. Zoologie et Medecine. in: Gaimard P. (ed.), Voyage en Islande et au Groënland pendant les années 1835 et 1836 sur la corvette La Recherche. vol. 7. Paris, Arthus Bertrand. [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 Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Двустворчатые моллюски умеренных вод северо-западной части Тихого океана. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Определители по фауне СССР. Guides to the fauna of the USSR. 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 pp.
page(s): 224 [details] Available for editors

subsequent type designation Iredale, T. (1915). A commentary on Suter's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 47: 417-497., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3343255
page(s): 485 [details]