African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Polititapes Chiamenti, 1900

AfReMaS taxon details

Polititapes Chiamenti, 1900

AphiaID

246149 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:246149)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Tapetinae J. E. Gray, 1851

Original name

Tapes (Polititapes) Chiamenti, 1900

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Species Polititapes aureus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Polititapes durus (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Polititapes rhomboides (Pennant, 1777)
Species Polititapes virgineus (Linnaeus, 1767) sensu auct. accepted as Polititapes rhomboides (Pennant, 1777) (misapplication)

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

(of ) Chiamenti, A. (1900). Contribuzione alio studio della Malacofauna Adriatica. Nota sulla famiglia della Veneridae, e della Petricolidae. Rivista Italiana di Scienze Naturali. 20(1-2): 9-15.
page(s): 11 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Polititapes Chiamenti, 1900. 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=246149 on 2026-03-16

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. Polititapes Chiamenti, 1900. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=246149 on 2026-03-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2007-09-10 09:13:40Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2012-01-29 07:15:07Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2012-08-13 11:03:37Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-06-30 13:37:15Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2022-01-09 19:51:35Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

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original description (of ) Chiamenti, A. (1900). Contribuzione alio studio della Malacofauna Adriatica. Nota sulla famiglia della Veneridae, e della Petricolidae. Rivista Italiana di Scienze Naturali. 20(1-2): 9-15.
page(s): 11 [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]

subsequent type designation Dall, W. H. (1902). Synopsis of the family Veneridae and of the North American Recent species. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 26 (1312): 335-412., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7612547
page(s): 363 [details]