WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Tagelus divisus (L. Spengler, 1794)

AphiaID

156999 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156999)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Tagelus J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Solen divisus L. Spengler, 1794

Synonymised names

Psammobia taeniata W. Turton, 1822 · unaccepted

Solecurtus bidens (Hanley, 1842) · unaccepted

Solecurtus viridens G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 · unaccepted

Solen bidens Hanley, 1842 · unaccepted

Solen bidentatus L. Spengler, 1794 · unaccepted

Solen divisus L. Spengler, 1794 · unaccepted (original combination)

Tagelus (Mesopleura) divisus (L. Spengler, 1794) · alternative representation

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Solen divisus L. Spengler, 1794) Spengler L. (1794). Nøiere Bestemmelse og Udvidelse af det Linneiske Genus Solen.. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, Kiøbenhavn. 3(2): 81-114., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN608227374_0003%7CLOG_0033
page(s): 96 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras

Distribution Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tagelus divisus (L. Spengler, 1794). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156999 on 2026-09-15

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-20 11:54:45Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2010-03-31 06:40:42Z

checked

Rosenberg, Gary

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description (of Solen bidens Hanley, 1842) Hanley S.C.T. (1842-1843). Illustrated, enlarged and English edition of Lamarck's species of shells .... forming the third edition of the Index Testaceologicus. London: Wood. 224+8+[3]+8 pp., 3 pls. [pp. 1-32. pl. 1-2. late 1842; pp. 11-32 [reissue], 33-144, early 1843; pp. 145-224 +8+[3]+8 pp., pl. 3, late 1843]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16229395
page(s): 16; note: based on Chemnitz (1795), vol. 11, p. 203, pl. 198, fig. 1939 [details]

original description (of Solecurtus viridens G. B. Sowerby II, 1874) Sowerby, G. B. II. (1874). Monograph of the genus Solecurtus. In: Conchologia iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 19, pl. 1-8 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London [pl. 2-3, June 1874; pl. 4-7, August 1874; pl. 1, 8, November 1874]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8218281
page(s): index entry to pl. 8, fig. 35; note: lapsus for bidens [details]

original description (of Solen divisus L. Spengler, 1794) Spengler L. (1794). Nøiere Bestemmelse og Udvidelse af det Linneiske Genus Solen.. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, Kiøbenhavn. 3(2): 81-114., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN608227374_0003%7CLOG_0033
page(s): 96 [details]

original description (of Solen bidentatus L. Spengler, 1794) Spengler L. (1794). Nøiere Bestemmelse og Udvidelse af det Linneiske Genus Solen.. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet, Kiøbenhavn. 3(2): 81-114., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/dms/load/img/?PID=PPN608227374_0003%7CLOG_0033 [details]

original description (of Psammobia taeniata W. Turton, 1822) Turton, W. (1822). Conchylia insularum britannicarum. London: Nattali, and Leicester: Combe. xlvii + 280 pp., 20 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10982454#page/9/mode/1up
page(s): 85 [details]

basis of record Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]

Other

context source (Bermuda) Jensen, R. H. (1997). A Checklist and Bibliography of the Marine Molluscs of Bermuda. Unp. , 547 pp [details]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] Available for editors