WoRMS name details
Variamussium Sacco, 1897
391134 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391134)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
Amussium cancellatum E. A. Smith, 1885 accepted as Parvamussium cancellatum (E. A. Smith, 1885) (type by original designation)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Amussium (Variamussium) Sacco, 1897) Sacco F. (1897). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte 24. <em>Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino.</em> 12(298): 101-102., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11810053
page(s): 102 [details]
page(s): 102 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Variamussium Sacco, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391134 on 2026-05-31
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Amussium (Variamussium) Sacco, 1897) Sacco F. (1897). I Molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria, Parte 24. <em>Bollettino dei Musei di Zoologia ed Anatomia Comparata della R. Università di Torino.</em> 12(298): 101-102., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11810053
page(s): 102 [details]
basis of record 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) [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): 191 [details]
page(s): 102 [details]
basis of record 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) [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): 191 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Dijkstra, H. H. (1995). Bathyal Pectinoidea (Bivalvia: Propeamussiidae, Entoliidae, Pectinidae) from New Caledonia and adjacent areas. in: Bouchet, P. (Ed.) Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM 14. <em>Mémoires du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle. Série A, Zoologie.</em> 167: 9-73., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58833137 [details]
