WoRMS taxon details
Clementia J. E. Gray, 1842
138635 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138635)
accepted
Genus
Venus papyracea J. E. Gray, 1825 accepted as Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791) (type by subsequent designation)
Blainvillia Hupé, 1854 · unaccepted > junior homonym (Invalid: junior homonym of...)
Invalid: junior homonym of Blainvillia Robineau-Desvoidy, 1830 [Diptera]
Clementia (Clementia) J. E. Gray, 1842 · unaccepted > superseded rank
- Species Clementia asiatica (Melvill, 1899)
- Species Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)
- Subgenus Clementia (Clementia) J. E. Gray, 1842 accepted as Clementia J. E. Gray, 1842 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Subgenus Clementia (Egesta) Conrad, 1845 accepted as Egesta Conrad, 1845 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
- Species Clementia (Egesta) solida Dall, 1902 represented as Egesta solida (Dall, 1902)
- Species Clementia annandalei Preston, 1914 accepted as Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Clementia cumingii Deshayes, 1855 accepted as Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791) (junior synonym)
- Species Clementia granulifera G. B. Sowerby II, 1852 accepted as Kyrina granulifera (G. B. Sowerby II, 1852)
- Species Clementia mcclellandi Tomlin, 1921 accepted as Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Clementia moretonensis Deshayes, 1854 accepted as Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Clementia obliqua Jukes-Browne, 1913 accepted as Compsomyax subdiaphana (P. P. Carpenter, 1864)
- Species Clementia similis G. B. Sowerby II, 1852 accepted as Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Clementia solida Dall, 1902 accepted as Egesta solida (Dall, 1902) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Clementia speciosa Yokoyama, 1923 accepted as Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791) (unaccepted > junior objective synonym)
- Species Clementia strangei Deshayes, 1854 accepted as Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Clementia subdiaphana P. P. Carpenter, 1864 accepted as Compsomyax subdiaphana (P. P. Carpenter, 1864) (original combination)
- Species Clementia tasmanica Petterd, 1884 accepted as Kyrina rubiginosa (A. Adams & Angas, 1864)
- Species Clementia vatheleti Mabille, 1901 accepted as Clementia papyracea (Gmelin, 1791)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Gray, J. E. (1842). Molluscs. Pp. 48-92, in: <i>Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum</i>, edition 44. British Museum. London. iv + 308 p. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55295773
page(s): 75 [details]
page(s): 75 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Clementia J. E. Gray, 1842. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138635 on 2026-06-15
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Nomenclature
original description
Gray, J. E. (1842). Molluscs. Pp. 48-92, in: <i>Synopsis of the contents of the British Museum</i>, edition 44. British Museum. London. iv + 308 p. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/55295773
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Blainvillia Hupé, 1854) Hupé, H. (1854). Note sur un nouveau genre de Mollusque acéphale, genre Blainvillie (<em>Blainvillia</em>). <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée, série 2.</em> 6: 219-224., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13681290
page(s): 220 [details]
basis of record 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): 155 [details]
page(s): 75 [details]
original description (of Blainvillia Hupé, 1854) Hupé, H. (1854). Note sur un nouveau genre de Mollusque acéphale, genre Blainvillie (<em>Blainvillia</em>). <em>Revue et Magasin de Zoologie pure et appliquée, série 2.</em> 6: 219-224., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13681290
page(s): 220 [details]
basis of record 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): 155 [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp.
page(s): 820 [details]
page(s): 820 [details]
Other
subsequent type designation
Gray, J. E. (1847). A list of the genera of recent Mollusca, their synonyms and types. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1847) 15: 129-219. [November 1847]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12862913
page(s): 184; note: type species fixation, by subsequent monotypy [details]
page(s): 184; note: type species fixation, by subsequent monotypy [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
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