African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Felania diaphana (Gmelin, 1791)

AfReMaS name details

Felania diaphana (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

732321 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:732321)

Classification

Status

unaccepted

Accepted name

Diplodonta (Felania) diaphana (Gmelin, 1791) represented as Diplodonta diaphana (Gmelin, 1791)

Rank

Species

Parent

Felania Récluz, 1851 accepted as Diplodonta (Felania) Récluz, 1851 represented as Diplodonta Bronn, 1831

Original name

Venus diaphana Gmelin, 1791

Environment

marine

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]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Felania diaphana (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) (2021) African Register of Marine Species at: http://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=732321 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. Felania diaphana (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=732321 on 2026-10-04

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2013-06-13 11:51:27Z

created

Sartori, André F.

2019-12-07 13:34:40Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

[taxonomic tree] [clear cache]

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]

basis of record Huber M. (2015). <i>Compendium of bivalves 2. A full-color guide to the remaining seven families. A systematic listing of 8,500 bivalve species and 10,500 synonyms.</i> Harxheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp. + 1 CD-ROM (containing chapters 5 and 6). [Tellinidae by M. Huber, A. Langleit & K. Kreipl, pp. 167-297, 564-746].
page(s): 815 [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): 830-831 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 publications)