MolluscaBase - Arca pacifica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)

WoRMS taxon details

Arca pacifica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833)

AphiaID

504372 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:504372)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Arca Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Byssoarca pacifica G. B. Sowerby I, 1833

Synonymised names

Byssoarca pacifica G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 · unaccepted (original combination)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Byssoarca pacifica G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1834). [Characters of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1833: 16-22, 34-38 [17 May]; 52-56 [24 May]; 70-74 [20 September]; 82–85 [8 September]; 134-139. [16 April 1834]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859474
page(s): 17 [details]

Type data

Note Saint Helena

Type locality Saint Helena [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Arca pacifica (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504372 on 2025-04-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-18 08:38:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-09-15 11:43:10Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2021-11-16 15:22:33Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description (of Byssoarca pacifica G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1833-1834). [Characters of new species of shells from the collection formed by Mr. Cuming on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. 1833: 16-22, 34-38 [17 May]; 52-56 [24 May]; 70-74 [20 September]; 82–85 [8 September]; 134-139. [16 April 1834]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859474
page(s): 17 [details]

basis of record Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa. 2189: 1–218., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.2189.1.1 [details]

Taxonomy

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]

Other

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]

additional source Vermeij, G.; Amano, K. (2021). The genera Tetrarca (Subfamily Cuculaeinae), Arca, and Lamarcka, new genus (Subfamily Arcinae), with special reference to the history of cold adaptation in North Pacific Tetrarca boucardi (Bivalvia: Arcidae). The Nautilus. 135(2): 42–46.
page(s): 43 [details] Available for editors

[request]

additional source Huber, M. (2010). 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]