MolluscaBase - Cucumaria Conrad, 1853

WoRMS name details

Cucumaria Conrad, 1853

AphiaID

1306554 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1306554)

Classification

Status

unaccepted (Invalid: junior homonym of Cucumaria Blainville, 1830 [Echinodermata])

Accepted Name

Cucumerunio Iredale, 1934

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Unio cucumoides I. Lea, 1840 accepted as Cucumerunio novaehollandiae (Gray, 1834) (type by original designation)

Parent

Hyriidae Swainson, 1840

Original name

Cucumaria Conrad, 1853

Environment

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

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Conrad, T. A. (1853). A synopsis of the family of Naiades of North America, with notes, and a table of some of the genera and sub-genera of the family, according to their geographical distribution, and descriptions of genera and sub-genera. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6(7): 243-269., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1779779
page(s): 269 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cucumaria Conrad, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1306554 on 2025-04-08

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2018-10-26 03:41:54Z

created

Köhler, Frank

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description Conrad, T. A. (1853). A synopsis of the family of Naiades of North America, with notes, and a table of some of the genera and sub-genera of the family, according to their geographical distribution, and descriptions of genera and sub-genera. <em>Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia.</em> 6(7): 243-269., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1779779
page(s): 269 [details]

To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Cucumaria)