African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Crassatella acuminata G. B. Sowerby III, 1890

AfReMaS name details

Crassatella acuminata G. B. Sowerby III, 1890

AphiaID

538974 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:538974)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym (of Crassatella acuminata Kobelt, 1886; C. sowerbyi Lamy, 1917 is a replacement name)

Accepted name

Crenocrassatella sowerbyi (E. Lamy, 1917) accepted as Crassatella rubrolineata W. H. Turton, 1932

Rank

Species

Parent

Crassatella Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Crassatella acuminata G. B. Sowerby III, 1890

Environment

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

Original description

Sowerby, G. B. III. (1890). Further notes on marine shells of South Africa, with descriptions of new species. Journal of Conchology. 6(4): 147-159, pl. 3. [17 January 1890]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31566913
page(s): 156, pl. 3 fig. 6 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Crassatella acuminata G. B. Sowerby III, 1890. 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=538974 on 2026-04-08

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. Crassatella acuminata G. B. Sowerby III, 1890. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=538974 on 2026-04-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-11-10 15:53:17Z

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Tran, Bastien

2010-11-10 16:07:33Z

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Huber, Markus

2018-03-26 18:56:34Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2020-07-23 10:11:26Z

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Herbert, David

2025-04-20 11:39:13Z

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Dekker, Henk

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original description Sowerby, G. B. III. (1890). Further notes on marine shells of South Africa, with descriptions of new species. Journal of Conchology. 6(4): 147-159, pl. 3. [17 January 1890]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/31566913
page(s): 156, pl. 3 fig. 6 [details]

basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [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]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (13 publications)