WoRMS taxon details
Acila castrensis (Hinds, 1843)
506568 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506568)
accepted
Species
Acila (Truncacila) beringiana Slodkevich, 1967 · unaccepted
Acila (Truncacila) castrensis (Hinds, 1843) · alternative representation
Acila beringiana Slodkevich, 1967 · unaccepted
Acila empirensis Howe, 1922 · unaccepted
Nucula castrensis Hinds, 1843 · unaccepted (original combination)
Nucula divaricata Valenciennes, 1846 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Nucula...)
invalid: junior homonym of Nucula divaricata Hinds, 1843
Nucula lyalli Baird, 1863 · unaccepted
marine
(of Nucula castrensis Hinds, 1843) Hinds, R. B. (1843). Descriptions of new species of <i>Nucula</i>, from the collections of Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., and Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1843) 11: 97–101., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30680075
page(s): 98. [details]
page(s): 98. [details]
Type locality contained in Sitka
type locality contained in Sitka [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Acila castrensis (Hinds, 1843). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506568 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Acila empirensis Howe, 1922) Howe, H. V. W. (1922). Faunal and stratigraphic relationships of the Empire formation, Coos Bay, Oregon. <em>University of California Publications, Bulletin of the Department of Geological Sciences.</em> 14(3): 85-114, pls. 7-12. [details]
original description (of Nucula castrensis Hinds, 1843) Hinds, R. B. (1843). Descriptions of new species of <i>Nucula</i>, from the collections of Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., and Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1843) 11: 97–101., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30680075
page(s): 98. [details]
original description (of Nucula lyalli Baird, 1863) Baird W. (1863). Descriptions of some new species of shells, collected at Vancouver Island and in British Columbia by J. K. Lord, Esq., Naturalist to the British North-American Boundary Commission, in the years 1858-1862. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1863: 66-70., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30681370
page(s): 71 [details]
original description (of Nucula divaricata Valenciennes, 1846) Valenciennes A. (1846). Atlas de Zoologie. Mollusques. <em>In: A. du Petit-Thouars, Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Venus pendant les années 1836–1839.</em> 4 vols. [Mollusques: pls. 1, 1bis, 2, 2bis, 3, 3bis, 4–24; no text]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54753345
page(s): pl. 23, fig. 3 [details]
original description (of Acila (Truncacila) beringiana Slodkevich, 1967) Slodkewitsch [= Slodkevich], V. S. (1967). Третичные Acila Сахалина [= The Tertiary Acila of Sakhalin]. <em>Moscow: Nauka Publishers.</em> 79 pp.
page(s): 56, pl. IX, fig. 8-10; pl. X, fig. 1-5 [details] Available for editors
[request]
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]
original description (of Nucula castrensis Hinds, 1843) Hinds, R. B. (1843). Descriptions of new species of <i>Nucula</i>, from the collections of Sir Edward Belcher, C.B., and Hugh Cuming, Esq. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1843) 11: 97–101., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30680075
page(s): 98. [details]
original description (of Nucula lyalli Baird, 1863) Baird W. (1863). Descriptions of some new species of shells, collected at Vancouver Island and in British Columbia by J. K. Lord, Esq., Naturalist to the British North-American Boundary Commission, in the years 1858-1862. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1863: 66-70., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30681370
page(s): 71 [details]
original description (of Nucula divaricata Valenciennes, 1846) Valenciennes A. (1846). Atlas de Zoologie. Mollusques. <em>In: A. du Petit-Thouars, Voyage autour du monde sur la frégate la Venus pendant les années 1836–1839.</em> 4 vols. [Mollusques: pls. 1, 1bis, 2, 2bis, 3, 3bis, 4–24; no text]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/54753345
page(s): pl. 23, fig. 3 [details]
original description (of Acila (Truncacila) beringiana Slodkevich, 1967) Slodkewitsch [= Slodkevich], V. S. (1967). Третичные Acila Сахалина [= The Tertiary Acila of Sakhalin]. <em>Moscow: Nauka Publishers.</em> 79 pp.
page(s): 56, pl. IX, fig. 8-10; pl. X, fig. 1-5 [details] Available for editors
[request]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]
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
additional source
Frizzell, D. L. (1930). Variation in the sculpture of <i>Acila castrensis</i> Hinds. <em>The Nautilus.</em> 44(2): 50-53, 1 illustration., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8514904 [details]
additional source Valentich-Scott P. (1998). Class Bivalvia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 1 – The Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 8: 97-173. [details]
additional source Valentich-Scott P. (1998). Class Bivalvia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 1 – The Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 8: 97-173. [details]
Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
To Barcode of Life (8 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Acila empirensis Howe, 1922)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications) (from synonym Nucula divaricata Valenciennes, 1846)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) (from synonym Nucula castrensis Hinds, 1843)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acila castrensis)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Nucula castrensis Hinds, 1843)
To Malacopics (Acila castrensis (Hinds, 1843) Canada, British Columbia, SW of Barkley Sound, Tera ...
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Nucula castrensis Hinds, 1843)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Acila empirensis Howe, 1922)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (47 publications) (from synonym Nucula divaricata Valenciennes, 1846)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (48 publications) (from synonym Nucula castrensis Hinds, 1843)
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Acila castrensis)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 4 proteins)
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 4 proteins) (from synonym Nucula castrensis Hinds, 1843)
To Malacopics (Acila castrensis (Hinds, 1843) Canada, British Columbia, SW of Barkley Sound, Tera ...
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Nucula castrensis Hinds, 1843)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
