African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Mesodesmatidae Gray, 1840

AphiaID

232 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:232)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Mactroidea Lamarck, 1809

Direct children (5)
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Genus Atactodea Dall, 1895
Genus Donacilla R. A. Philippi, 1836
Genus Mesodesma Deshayes, 1832
Genus Paphies Lesson, 1831
Genus Regterenia Rooij-Schuiling, 1972

Environment

marine, fresh

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Mesodesmatidae Gray, 1840. Accessed through: Odido, M.; Appeltans, W.; BelHassen, M.; Mussai, P.; Nsiangango, S.E.; Vandepitte, L.; Wambiji, N.; Zamouri, N. Jiddou, A.M. (Eds) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=232 on 2023-03-22

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) (2023). African Register of Marine Species. Mesodesmatidae Gray, 1840. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=232 on 2023-03-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

db_admin

2010-07-10 09:41:30Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

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basis of record Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Lamy E. 1914. Révision des Mesodesmatidae vivants du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle de Paris. Journal de Conchyliologie 62: 1-74., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16311646 [details]

additional source Beu A. G. (1971). Genera of the bivalve family Mesodesmatidae, with comments on some australian species. Journal of the Malacological Society of Australia 2 (2): 113-131 [details]

additional source Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia. 52(2): 1-184. [details]

additional source de Rooij-Schuiling L.A. 1972. Systematic notes on the Mesodesmatidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia), and descriptions of a new species and a new subspecies. Zoologische Mededelingen 46(5): 55-68. , available online at http://www.repository.naturalis.nl/record/318223 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL)
To European Nucleotide Archive (ENA)
To Genbank
To image gallery of Natural History Museum Rotterdam
To ITIS