African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Electroma fuscopurpurea (E. A. Smith, 1876)

AfReMaS taxon details

Electroma fuscopurpurea (E. A. Smith, 1876)

AphiaID

507100 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507100)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Electroma Stoliczka, 1871

Original name

Avicula fuscopurpurea E. A. Smith, 1876

Synonymised names

Avicula fuscopurpurea E. A. Smith, 1876 · unaccepted (original combination)

Pteria fuscopurpurea (E. A. Smith, 1876) · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Avicula fuscopurpurea E. A. Smith, 1876) Smith, E. A. (1876). Diagnoses of new species of Mollusca and Echinodermata from the Island of Rodriguez. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 4, 17:404-406., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19267306
page(s): 405. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Electroma fuscopurpurea (E. A. Smith, 1876). 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://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507100 on 2026-09-07

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. Electroma fuscopurpurea (E. A. Smith, 1876). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507100 on 2026-09-07

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

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original description (of Avicula fuscopurpurea E. A. Smith, 1876) Smith, E. A. (1876). Diagnoses of new species of Mollusca and Echinodermata from the Island of Rodriguez. Annals and Magazine of Natural History. ser. 4, 17:404-406., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/19267306
page(s): 405. [details]

basis of record 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]

additional source Córdova-Cárdenas, B. & Urbano, B. (2026). Breve revisión bibliográfica del género Electroma (Bivalvia: Vulsellidae) con énfasis en el Atlántico tropical y descripción de Electroma spinosa sp. nov. Ciencia y Mar. 30: 89: 13-34.
page(s): 28 [details] Available for editors

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Introduced: alien

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