Hong Kong Register of Marine Species - Musculus Röding, 1798

HKRMS taxon details

Musculus Röding, 1798

AphiaID

138225 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138225)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon of

Musculinae Iredale, 1939

Parent

Crenellinae J. E. Gray, 1840

Original name

Musculus Röding, 1798

Direct children (4)

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Species Musculus cupreus (A. A. Gould, 1861)
Species Musculus nana (Dunker, 1857)
Species Musculus japonicus (Dunker, 1857) accepted as Arcuatula japonica (Dunker, 1857)
Species Musculus nanus accepted as Musculus nana (Dunker, 1857) (misspelling)

Environment

marine, ~~brackish~~, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 157 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Musculus Röding, 1798. Accessed through: Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2025) Hong Kong Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138225 on 2026-03-01

Regional species database citation

Astudillo, J. C.; Williams, G. A.; Leung, K. M. Y.; Cannicci, S.; Yasuhara, M.; Yau, C.; Qiu, J-W.; Ang, P. O.; To, A. W. L.; Shea, S. K. H. (Eds.) (2026). Hong Kong Register of Marine Species. Musculus Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138225 on 2026-03-01

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2013-11-07 15:19:39Z

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Gofas, Serge

2018-03-23 21:34:07Z

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Gofas, Serge

2019-08-11 22:27:57Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

2024-10-08 23:01:11Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2025-02-23 18:21:14Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

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original description Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 157 [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 Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Двустворчатые моллюски умеренных вод северо-западной части Тихого океана. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Определители по фауне СССР. Guides to the fauna of the USSR. 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 pp.
page(s): 224 [details] Available for editors

subsequent type designation Iredale, T. (1915). A commentary on Suter's Manual of the New Zealand Mollusca. Transactions and Proceedings of the New Zealand Institute. 47: 417-497., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/3343255
page(s): 485 [details]