African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Timoclea T. Brown, 1827

Timoclea ovata

AphiaID

138646 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138646)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Venerinae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Timoclea T. Brown, 1827

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Species Timoclea arakana (G. Nevill & H. Nevill, 1871)
Species Timoclea concinna (Viader, 1951)
Species Timoclea costellifera (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Species Timoclea hypopta (Sturany, 1899)
Species Timoclea marica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Timoclea mindanensis (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Timoclea ovata (Pennant, 1777)
Species Timoclea scabra (Hanley, 1845)
Species Timoclea siamensis (Lynge, 1909)
Species Timoclea subnodulosa (Hanley, 1845)
Species Timoclea barashi Fischer-Piette, 1974 accepted as Timoclea hypopta (Sturany, 1899)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from Nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> [i–vi] + i–v pp., 52 pls [1–52, 10*, with unpaginated plate explanations]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 19 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Timoclea T. Brown, 1827. 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=138646 on 2026-08-26

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. Timoclea T. Brown, 1827. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138646 on 2026-08-26

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2005-04-14 07:47:17Z

changed

Cuvelier, Daphne

2012-02-29 07:45:35Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2013-09-06 08:30:31Z

changed

Sartori, André F.

2017-09-26 03:45:50Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-01-09 19:51:35Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

2024-02-18 09:23:19Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

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original description Brown, T. (1827). Illustrations of the Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland. Drawn from Nature. <em>W.H. Lizars and D. Lizars, Edinburgh and S. Highley, London.</em> [i–vi] + i–v pp., 52 pls [1–52, 10*, with unpaginated plate explanations]., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127868
page(s): pl. 19 [details]

basis of record 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): 175 [details]

additional source Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 154 [details]