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Polititapes durus (Gmelin, 1791)

507876  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507876)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
  7. Euheterodonta (Subterclass)
  8. Imparidentia (Superorder)
  9. Venerida (Order)
  10. Veneroidea (Superfamily)
  11. Veneridae (Family)
  12. Tapetinae (Subfamily)
  13. Polititapes (Genus)
  14. Polititapes durus (Species)
accepted
Species
Venerupis dura (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine
(of ) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3292 [details] OpenAccess publication
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Polititapes durus (Gmelin, 1791). 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=507876 on 2026-04-23
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 durus (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507876 on 2026-04-23
Date
action
by
2010-08-18 08:38:17Z
created
Tran, Bastien
2010-09-15 11:43:10Z
checked
Huber, Markus

original description (of ) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3292 [details] OpenAccess publication

basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details] 

identification resource Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). <i>Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola</i>. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104. , available online at https://doi.org/10.5852/fft48
page(s): 926-927 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

    Definitions

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To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) (from synonym Paphia dura (Gmelin, 1791))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Paphia dura (Gmelin, 1791))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Venerupis dura (Gmelin, 1791))
To Conchology (Polititapes durus) 
To Conchology (Polititapes durus) 
To Conchology (Polititapes durus) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Paphia dura) (from synonym Paphia dura (Gmelin, 1791))
To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 3 proteins) (from synonym Paphia dura (Gmelin, 1791))
To Malacopics (Polititapes durus (Gmelin, 1791) Senegal, Thies, M'Bour, by shrimpers, at 20-30 m de... 
To PESI (from synonym Paphia dura (Gmelin, 1791))
To PESI (from synonym Venerupis dura (Gmelin, 1791))
To PESI 
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