WoRMS taxon details
Tetrarca boucardi (Jousseaume, 1894)
1549093 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1549093)
accepted
Species
Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894 · unaccepted
Arca kobeltiana Pilsbry, 1904 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Arca miuraensis H. Noda, 1966 · unaccepted
Arca miyatensis Oyama, 1951 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Arca ocellata Kobelt, 1889 · unaccepted
Arca rectangularis Tokunaga, 1906 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894) Jousseaume F. (1894). Description d'une espèce nouvelle de coquille du Japon du genre Arca. <em>The Humming Bird.</em> 4: 41-56., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41143108
page(s): 41 [details]
page(s): 41 [details]
Note Stated as "seas of Japan"
Type locality Stated as "seas of Japan" [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tetrarca boucardi (Jousseaume, 1894). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1549093 on 2026-01-16
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894) Jousseaume F. (1894). Description d'une espèce nouvelle de coquille du Japon du genre Arca. <em>The Humming Bird.</em> 4: 41-56., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41143108
page(s): 41 [details]
original description (of Arca kobeltiana Pilsbry, 1904) Pilsbry, H. A. (1904). New Japanese marine Mollusca: Pelecypoda. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 56: 550-561, pls 39-41., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26316962
page(s): 559, pl. 40 figs 16-19 [details]
original description (of Arca miuraensis H. Noda, 1966) Noda, H. (1966). The Cenozoic Arcidae of Japan. <em>The Science Reports of the Tohoku University. ser. 2, Geology.</em> 38: 1-161, pls 1-14., available online at https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id=11988&item_no=1&page_id=33&block_id=46 [details] Available for editors
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original description (of Arca miyatensis Oyama, 1951 †) Oyama K. (1951). Tentative classification of Cenozoic Taxodonta from Japan. <em>Mineralogy and Geology.</em> series 23-24: 1-157. [details]
original description (of Arca rectangularis Tokunaga, 1906) Tokunaga, S. (1906). Fossils from the environs of Tôkyô. <em>Journal of the College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University.</em> 21(2): 1-96, 5 pls., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7083802
page(s): 61 [details]
page(s): 41 [details]
original description (of Arca kobeltiana Pilsbry, 1904) Pilsbry, H. A. (1904). New Japanese marine Mollusca: Pelecypoda. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 56: 550-561, pls 39-41., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/26316962
page(s): 559, pl. 40 figs 16-19 [details]
original description (of Arca miuraensis H. Noda, 1966) Noda, H. (1966). The Cenozoic Arcidae of Japan. <em>The Science Reports of the Tohoku University. ser. 2, Geology.</em> 38: 1-161, pls 1-14., available online at https://tohoku.repo.nii.ac.jp/?action=pages_view_main&active_action=repository_view_main_item_detail&item_id=11988&item_no=1&page_id=33&block_id=46 [details] Available for editors
[request]original description (of Arca miyatensis Oyama, 1951 †) Oyama K. (1951). Tentative classification of Cenozoic Taxodonta from Japan. <em>Mineralogy and Geology.</em> series 23-24: 1-157. [details]
original description (of Arca rectangularis Tokunaga, 1906) Tokunaga, S. (1906). Fossils from the environs of Tôkyô. <em>Journal of the College of Science, Tokyo Imperial University.</em> 21(2): 1-96, 5 pls., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7083802
page(s): 61 [details]
Taxonomy
status source
Vermeij, G.; Amano, K. (2021). The genera <i>Tetrarca</i> (Subfamily Cuculaeinae), <i>Arca</i>, and <i>Lamarcka</i>, new genus (Subfamily Arcinae), with special reference to the history of cold adaptation in North Pacific <i>Tetrarca boucardi</i> (Bivalvia: Arcidae). <em>The Nautilus.</em> 135(2): 42–46.
page(s): 44 [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 44 [details] Available for editors
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additional source
Lisitsyna, K. N. & Kamenev, G. M. (2024). New and rare bivalve species for the fauna of the Kuril Islands (northwestern Pacific Ocean): A study of materials collected over 70 years of expeditions (from 1949 to 2019). <em>Zootaxa.</em> 5523(2): 231-253., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5523.2.6
page(s): 239, figs 2Q-R [details] Available for editors [request]
page(s): 239, figs 2Q-R [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Type locality Stated as "seas of Japan" [details]
| Language | Name | |
|---|---|---|
| English | Kobelt’s ark shell [from synonym] | [details] |
| Japanese | コベルトフネガイ [from synonym] | [details] |
| Russian | Арка Боукарда [from synonym] | [details] |
To ANSP Malacology Collection in GBIF (catalog no. 58082)
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Arca kobeltiana Pilsbry, 1904)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Conchology (Arca boucardi) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Conchology (Arca boucardi) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Conchology (Arca boucardi) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arca boucardi) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Malacopics (Tetrarca boucardi (Jousseaume,1894) Russia, Primorskij kraj, Vladivostok, Posjet Bay)
To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication) (from synonym Arca kobeltiana Pilsbry, 1904)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Biological Information System for Marine Life (BISMaL) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Conchology (Arca boucardi) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Conchology (Arca boucardi) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Conchology (Arca boucardi) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Arca boucardi) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To GenBank (11 nucleotides; 6 proteins) (from synonym Arca boucardi Jousseaume, 1894)
To Malacopics (Tetrarca boucardi (Jousseaume,1894) Russia, Primorskij kraj, Vladivostok, Posjet Bay)
