African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Tivela Link, 1807

AphiaID

204741 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204741)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Meretricinae J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Tivela Link, 1807

Synonymised names

Tivela (Tivela) Link, 1807 · alternative representation

Direct children (13)

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Species Tivela bicolor (J. E. Gray, 1838)
Species Tivela compressa (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851)
Species Tivela damaoides (W. Wood, 1828)
Species Tivela lamyi Dautzenberg, 1929
Species Tivela natalensis Dunker, 1864
Species Tivela transversa (G. B. Sowerby III, 1897)
Species Tivela tripla (Linnaeus, 1771)
Species Tivela valae Lussi, 1996
Species Tivela dolabella (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851) accepted as Tivela damaoides (W. Wood, 1828)
Species Tivela petiti Dautzenberg, 1929 accepted as Tivela transversa (G. B. Sowerby III, 1897) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Tivela polita (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851) accepted as Tivela damaoides (W. Wood, 1828)
Subgenus Tivela (Tivela) Link, 1807 represented as Tivela Link, 1807
1. Species Tivela (Tivela) natalensis Dunker, 1864 represented as Tivela natalensis Dunker, 1864

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben, Rostock; 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237
page(s): 152 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tivela Link, 1807. 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=204741 on 2026-10-12

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. Tivela Link, 1807. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204741 on 2026-10-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-06-06 22:00:00Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2013-01-08 19:16:37Z

checked

Bouchet, Philippe

2013-09-06 08:30:31Z

changed

Sartori, André F.

2021-06-28 14:33:01Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2023-07-26 08:33:19Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2024-02-15 14:13:08Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

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original description Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben, Rostock; 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237
page(s): 152 [details]

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

basis of record 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): 159 [details]

Present

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Introduced: alien

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