African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Lutraria oblonga (Gmelin, 1791)

AfReMaS name details

Lutraria oblonga (Gmelin, 1791)

Lutraria oblonga

AphiaID

152852 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152852)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Accepted name

Lutraria magna (da Costa, 1778)

Rank

Species

Parent

Lutraria Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Mya oblonga Gmelin, 1791

Environment

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

Original description

(of ) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lutraria oblonga (Gmelin, 1791). 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=152852 on 2026-04-25

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. Lutraria oblonga (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152852 on 2026-04-25

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-14 07:47:17Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2010-09-23 10:44:16Z

changed

Huber, Markus

2025-01-30 11:33:48Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

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original description (of ) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

basis of record Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

source of synonymy Moerdijk, P. W. (2024). A lectotype for the stabilization of the name Chama magna da Costa, 1778 (presently Lutraria magna (da Costa, 1778); Bivalvia: Mactridae). Basteria. 88(2): 220-224. [details] Available for editors