Chinese Register of Marine Species - Glycymeris da Costa, 1778

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Glycymeris da Costa, 1778

Glycymeris glycymeris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Shell from bay of Barbate, southern Spain (actual size 30.3 mm)

AphiaID

138035 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138035)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Glycymerididae Dall, 1908 (1847)

Original name

Glycymeris da Costa, 1778

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Species Glycymeris albolineata (Lischke, 1872)
Species Glycymeris aspersa (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)
Species Glycymeris reevei (Mayer[-Eymar], 1868)
Species Glycymeris rotunda (Dunker, 1882)
Species Glycymeris yessoensis (G. B. Sowerby III, 1889)
Species Glycymeris vestita (Dunker, 1877) accepted as Glycymeris aspersa (A. Adams & Reeve, 1850)

Environment

marine

Original description

Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Glycymeris da Costa, 1778. Accessed through: Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2025) Chinese Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138035 on 2026-05-12

Regional species database citation

Xu, K., An, J., Ding, L., Dong, D., Gao, Y., Huang, Y., Jiang, W., Lei, Y., Li, K., Li, X., Li, Y., Liang, X., Lin, G., Lin, M., Liu, H., Liu, J., Liu, W., Liu, X., Lu, D., Ma, Z., Ren, X., Sha, Z., Sun, J., Sun, S., Sun, Z., Tian, L., Wang, D., Wang, J., Wu, X., Xia, B., Xiao, N., Yin, J., Zhang, J., Zhang, S., Zhang, X., Zhao, E., Zheng, X., Zhou, H., Zhou, J. & Zhou, K. (2026). Chinese Register of Marine Species. Glycymeris da Costa, 1778. Accessed at: https://marinespecies.org/charms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138035 on 2026-05-12

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gofas, Serge

2010-08-15 08:23:48Z

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Gofas, Serge

2011-03-17 19:14:13Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2011-12-26 07:48:59Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2019-07-12 21:28:42Z

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Marshall, Bruce

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original description Da Costa, E. M. (1778). Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, or, the British conchology; containing the descriptions and other particulars of natural history of the shells of Great Britain and Ireland: illustrated with figures. In English and French. - Historia naturalis testaceorum Britanniæ, ou, la conchologie Britannique; contenant les descriptions & autres particularités d'histoire naturelle des coquilles de la Grande Bretagne & de l'Irlande: avec figures en taille douce. En anglois & françois. i-xii, 1-254, i-vii, [1], Pl. I-XVII. London. (Millan, White, Emsley & Robson). , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13116783 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. Revista peruana de biología. 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [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. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Nicol, D. (1967). How to distinguish between Limopsis and Glycymeris. The Nautilus. 81(2): 45-46., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8528062 [details]

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. [details]

status source ICZN. (1986). Opinion 1414. Panopea Ménard de la Groye, 1807 (Mollusca, Bivalvia): conserved. Bulletin of Zoological Nomenclature. 43 (3): 258-261., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12757433 [details]