African Register of Marine Species (AfReMaS) - Scintillula pustula (Deshayes, 1863)

AfReMaS taxon details

Scintillula pustula (Deshayes, 1863)

AphiaID

876264 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:876264)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Scintillula Jousseaume, 1888

Original name

Erycina pustula Deshayes, 1863

Synonymised names

Erycina pustula Deshayes, 1863 · unaccepted (original combination)

Marikellia pustula (Deshayes, 1863) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Erycina pustula Deshayes, 1863) Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1-144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13068117
page(s): 16, pl. 2, figs 10-12. [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Scintillula pustula (Deshayes, 1863). 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=876264 on 2026-01-17

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. Scintillula pustula (Deshayes, 1863). Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/afremas/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=876264 on 2026-01-17

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2016-05-12 11:43:49Z

created

Sartori, André F.

2020-07-13 14:01:11Z

changed

Herbert, David

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original description (of Erycina pustula Deshayes, 1863) Deshayes, G. P. (1863). Catalogue des mollusques de l'île de la Réunion (Bourbon). Pp. 1-144. In Maillard, L. (Ed.) Notes sur l'Ile de la Réunion. Dentu, Paris. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13068117
page(s): 16, pl. 2, figs 10-12. [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]. [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Malacopics (Scintillula pustula (Deshayes, 1863) Egypt, Al Bahr al Ahmar, Hurghada)

Unreviewed

To Malacopics (Scintillula pustula (Deshayes, 1863) Egypt, Al Bahr al Ahmar, Hurghada)

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