African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Pitar hebraeus (Lamarck, 1818)

WoRMS taxon details

Pitar hebraeus (Lamarck, 1818)

AphiaID

215026 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215026)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pitar Römer, 1857

Original name

Cytherea hebraea Lamarck, 1818

Synonymised names

Chione kraussi Deshayes, 1853 · unaccepted

Cytherea hebraea Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted > superseded combination

Cytherea lactea Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted

Meretrix hebraea (Lamarck, 1818) · unaccepted

Pitar (Pitarina) abbreviatus (Krauss, 1848) · unaccepted

Pitar (Pitarina) hebraeus (Lamarck, 1818) · alternative representation

Pitar abbreviatus (Krauss, 1848) · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Pitar hebraea (Lamarck, 1818) · unaccepted (wrong gender agreement of...)

wrong gender agreement of specific epithet

Pitaria hebraea (Lamarck, 1818) · unaccepted

Venus abbreviata Krauss, 1848 · unaccepted

Venus paupercula var. abbreviata Krauss, 1848 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Environment

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

Original description

(of Cytherea hebraea Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 568 [details]

Type data

Note ? Indian Ocean

Type locality ? Indian Ocean [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pitar hebraeus (Lamarck, 1818). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215026 on 2025-06-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-11-26 21:01:06Z

created

Onyango, Eunice

2002-08-06 16:41:02Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-08-17 07:11:08Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-23 11:55:17Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2019-09-14 07:22:37Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cytherea hebraea Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 568 [details]

original description (of Cytherea lactea Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 572 [details]

original description (of Venus paupercula var. abbreviata Krauss, 1848) Krauss, F. (1848) Die Südafrikanischen Mollusken. Ein Beitrag zur Kenntniss der Mollusken des Kap- und Natallandes und zur Geographischen Verbreitung derselben mit Beschreibung und Abbildung der neuen Arten. Ebner and Seubert, Stuttgart, 140 pp., 6 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13801704
page(s): 11, pl. 1, fig. 10. [details]

original description (of Chione kraussi Deshayes, 1853) Deshayes, G. P. (1853-1855). Catalogue of the Conchifera or bivalve shells in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London, Part I. Cyprinidae, Veneridae and Glauconomidae, pp. ii + 216 pp. [introduction by J. E. Gray] [27 June 1853]; Part II, Petricoladae (concluded), Corbiculadae, pp. 217-292 [title page dated "1854"; 12 May 1855]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60978
page(s): 154 [details]

basis of record Spry, J. F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records. 63: 123-164, 8 pls. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

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Other

additional source Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 68: 21-74., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5656754n [details]

additional source Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (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]