African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS)

AfReMaS name details

Cytherea Lamarck, 1805

AphiaID

516182 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:516182)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794 [Diptera] and Cytherea Röding, 1798)

Accepted name

Meretrix Lamarck, 1799

Rank

Genus

Parent

Meretricinae J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Cytherea Lamarck, 1805

Synonymised names

Venus (Cytherea) Lamarck, 1805 · unaccepted

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Subgenus Cytherea (Circe) Schumacher, 1817 represented as Circe Schumacher, 1817
1. Species Cytherea (Circe) paralytica Römer, 1860 accepted as Circenita paralytica (Römer, 1860)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Lamarck [J.B.P.A. de]. (1805). Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. 7: 53-62, 130-139 [December 1805]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48531894
page(s): 132 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cytherea Lamarck, 1805. 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=516182 on 2026-10-04

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. Cytherea Lamarck, 1805. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=516182 on 2026-10-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-09-10 12:28:10Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-17 08:35:07Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2011-03-19 11:16:20Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2011-05-03 20:37:57Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2019-07-21 03:17:52Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2021-06-28 14:33:01Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2026-03-28 09:26:36Z

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Schneider, Simon

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original description Lamarck [J.B.P.A. de]. (1805). Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. 7: 53-62, 130-139 [December 1805]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/48531894
page(s): 132 [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]

source of synonymy Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 159 [details]

Unreviewed

Eben (1884, figuur 24)