African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS taxon details

Dendostrea Swainson, 1835

AphiaID

415280 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415280)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Ostreinae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Dendostrea Swainson, 1835

Synonymised names

Dendrostrea [sic] · unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling (misspelling by Woodward (1851))

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Species Dendostrea crenulifera (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871)
Species Dendostrea cristata (Born, 1778)
Species Dendostrea folium (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Dendostrea frons (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Dendostrea rosacea (Deshayes, 1836)
Species Dendostrea sandvichensis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871)
Species Dendostrea senegalensis (Gmelin, 1791)

Environment

marine

Original description

Swainson, W. (1835). The elements of modern conchology. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 62 pp., available online at http://books.google.fr/books?id=0eW-_B8V6IQC
page(s): 39 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Dendostrea Swainson, 1835. 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=415280 on 2026-08-22

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) (2026). African Register of Marine Species. Dendostrea Swainson, 1835. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415280 on 2026-08-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-09-23 14:01:30Z

created

db_admin

2010-11-15 18:31:16Z

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Gofas, Serge

2011-08-02 17:37:26Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

2011-10-30 10:35:41Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2012-07-14 18:15:09Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2015-02-14 13:10:31Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2024-02-03 02:16:11Z

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Marshall, Bruce

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original description Swainson, W. (1835). The elements of modern conchology. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 62 pp., available online at http://books.google.fr/books?id=0eW-_B8V6IQC
page(s): 39 [details]

context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]

redescription Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]

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Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

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Unreviewed

Dendostrea folium

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