African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

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Pandora Bruguière, 1797

Pandora inaequivalvis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Specimens from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m), actual size C, SEM view of a juvenile specimen, same locality (scale 100 µm); D: prodissoconch of the same specimen, actual size 3.2 mm.

AphiaID

138310 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138310)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Pandoridae Rafinesque, 1815

Parent

Pandoridae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Pandora Bruguière, 1797

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Species Pandora dissimilis G. B. Sowerby III, 1894
Species Pandora inaequivalvis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Pandora similis G. B. Sowerby III, 1897 accepted as Frenamya similis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1897) (unaccepted > superseded combination)

Environment

marine

Original description

Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke. volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): pl. 250 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pandora Bruguière, 1797. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2025) African Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138310 on 2026-04-18

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. Pandora Bruguière, 1797. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138310 on 2026-04-18

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2010-09-13 17:15:27Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2016-09-24 15:46:20Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-10-13 19:43:17Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

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original description Bruguière, J.G. (1789-1792). Encyclopédie méthodique ou par ordre de matières, par une Societe de gens de Lettres, de Savans et D'Artistes. [Methodical encyclopedia or by order of subjects, by a Society of Men of Letters, Scholars and Artists.]. Histoire naturelle des Vers, Paris: Pancoucke. volume 1: i-xviii, 1-344 [Livraison 32, June 1789]; 345-757 [Livraison 48, 13 Feb. 1792] [Dates after Evenhuis, 2003, Zootaxa, 166: 37; Zootaxa, 207, some modified by Evenhuis & Petit 2003 Zootaxa 207:1-4]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8892006
page(s): pl. 250 [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]

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Pandora)
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Unreviewed

Pandora inaequivalvis

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