WoRMS taxon details

Timoclea ovata (Pennant, 1777)

141929  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141929)

accepted
Species
Pasiphae pennantia Leach, 1852 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym
Venus alope Brusina, 1870 · unaccepted > nomen nudum (nomen nudum)
Venus myrrha Brusina, 1870 · unaccepted > nomen nudum (nomen nudum)
Venus ovata Pennant, 1777 · unaccepted (synonym)
Venus ovata var. lutea Jeffreys, 1864 · unaccepted (synonym)
marine
(of Venus ovata Pennant, 1777) Pennant, T. (1777). British Zoology, vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea. <em>London.</em> i-viii, 1-154, pls. 1-93., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127011
page(s): 97, pl. 56 fig. 56 [details]   
MolluscaBase eds. (2023). MolluscaBase. Timoclea ovata (Pennant, 1777). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141929 on 2023-09-28
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original description  (of Venus ovata Pennant, 1777) Pennant, T. (1777). British Zoology, vol. IV. Crustacea. Mollusca. Testacea. <em>London.</em> i-viii, 1-154, pls. 1-93., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/127011
page(s): 97, pl. 56 fig. 56 [details]   

original description  (of Pasiphae pennantia Leach, 1852) Leach, W. E. (1852). Molluscorum Britanniae Synopsis. A synopsis of the Mollusca of Great Britain arranged according to their natural affinities and anatomical structure. Van Voorst, London, viii + 376 pp. (edited posthumously by J. E. Gray). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13107076
page(s): 308 [details]   

original description  (of Venus pectinula Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome 5. Paris: Deterville/Verdière, 612 pp. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/46337 [details]   

original description  (of Venus alope Brusina, 1870) Brusina, S. (1870). Ipsa Chiereghinii Conchylia, ovvero contribuzione pella Malacologia Adriatica desunta dal manoscritto descrizione de' Crostacei, de' Testacei, e de' Pesci che abitano le Lagune e Golfo Veneto, rappresentati in figure, a chiaro-scuro ed a colori dall Abate S. Chiereghini ... illustrata da S. Brusina. <em>Pisa, Biblioteca Malacologica.</em> 280 pp., available online at https://archive.org/stream/ipsachiereghini00chiegoog
page(s): 78; note: ex Chiereghini ms. [details]   

original description  (of Venus myrrha Brusina, 1870) Brusina, S. (1870). Ipsa Chiereghinii Conchylia, ovvero contribuzione pella Malacologia Adriatica desunta dal manoscritto descrizione de' Crostacei, de' Testacei, e de' Pesci che abitano le Lagune e Golfo Veneto, rappresentati in figure, a chiaro-scuro ed a colori dall Abate S. Chiereghini ... illustrata da S. Brusina. <em>Pisa, Biblioteca Malacologica.</em> 280 pp., available online at https://archive.org/stream/ipsachiereghini00chiegoog
page(s): 77-78; note: ex Chiereghini ms.  [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. lutea Jeffreys, 1864) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 2: 343 [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. trigona Jeffreys, 1864) Jeffreys, J. G. (1862-1869). <i>British conchology</i>. Vol. 1: pp. cxiv + 341 [1862]. Vol. 2: pp. 479 [1864]. Vol. 3: pp. 394 [1865]. Vol. 4: pp. 487 [1867]. Vol. 5: pp. 259 [1869]. London, van Voorst. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/55187
page(s): 343 [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. transversa Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 381 [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. marmorata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 381 [details]   

original description  (of Venus ovata var. paucicostata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309
page(s): 381 [details]   

context source (BeRMS 2020) Bio-environmental research group; Institute of Agricultural and Fisheries research (ILVO), Belgium; (2016): Macrobenthos monitoring at long-term monitoring stations in the Belgian part of the North Sea from 2001 on. [details]   

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]   

additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS)
page(s): 369, fig. row 4, columns 1-2. [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.
page(s): 882-883 [details]   
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Classification Abbott (1974) considers Timoclea Brown, 1827 as a subgenus of Chione Megerle van Mühlfeld, 1811. However, we follow the majority of European authors to use them both as seperate genera. [details]
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Danish nettegnet venusmusling  [details]
Dutch ovale venusschelp  [details]
English oval venus  [details]
German Ovale Venusmuschel  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål lammeskjell  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk lammeskjel  [details]
Swedish radiärstrimmig venusmussla  [details]
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