Hong Kong Register of Marine Species - Gafrarium aequivocum (Holten, 1802)

HKRMS taxon details

Gafrarium aequivocum (Holten, 1802)

AphiaID

507652 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507652)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Gafrarium Röding, 1798

Original name

Venus aequivoca Holten, 1802

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Holten, H. S. 1802. Enumeratio systematica conchyliorum beat J. H. Chemnitzii quondam ecclesiae Zebaothi Havniae pastoris, plurim societum sodialis p. p. quae publica auctione venduntur die 7me Decembris ano pres. Copenhagen: K. H. Scidelini. vi + 88 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46195957
page(s): 20; note: based on Chemnitz (1795), vol. 11, p. 229-230, pl. 202 fig. 1980 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Gafrarium aequivocum (Holten, 1802). 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=507652 on 2026-01-16

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. Gafrarium aequivocum (Holten, 1802). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/hkrms/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507652 on 2026-01-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

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original description (of ) Holten, H. S. 1802. Enumeratio systematica conchyliorum beat J. H. Chemnitzii quondam ecclesiae Zebaothi Havniae pastoris, plurim societum sodialis p. p. quae publica auctione venduntur die 7me Decembris ano pres. Copenhagen: K. H. Scidelini. vi + 88 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46195957
page(s): 20; note: based on Chemnitz (1795), vol. 11, p. 229-230, pl. 202 fig. 1980 [details]

context source (HKRMS) City University of Hong Kong. (2010). Provision of Services for Species Identification and Data Analysis of Epibenthic Organisms from Hong Kong Water. Final report. Environmental Protection Department. Department of Biology and Chemistry, City University [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]