WoRMS name details
Azor T. Brown, 1844
515941 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:515941)
unaccepted > junior homonym (of Azor J. de C. Sowerby, 1824)
Genus
Solen antiquatus Pulteney, 1799 accepted as Azorinus chamasolen (da Costa, 1778) (type by monotypy)
- Species Azor antiquatus (Pulteney, 1799) accepted as Azorinus chamasolen (da Costa, 1778) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
- Species Azor minutus Dunker, 1862 accepted as Azorinus minutus (Dunker, 1862)
- Species Azor oblongus Dunker, 1862 accepted as Azorinus scheepmakeri (Dunker, 1852)
- Species Azor solidus Dunker, 1862 accepted as Azorinus abbreviatus (A. Gould, 1861) (junior subjective synonym)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Brown T. (1844). <i>Illustrations of the Recent Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with the description and localities of all the species, marine, land, and fresh water</i>. Ed. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. <em>Drawn and Coloured from Nature. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10921172
page(s): 113 [details]
page(s): 113 [details]
Nomenclature Name attributed by Brown to Leach. Leach's MS name was first made available by J. de C. Sowerby with a taxonomic extension...
Nomenclature Name attributed by Brown to Leach. Leach's MS name was first made available by J. de C. Sowerby with a taxonomic extension (based on the Eocene species Sanguinolaria compressa J. de C. Sowerby, 1824, a member of family Psammobiidae) different from Leach's original intention. Leach had associated the name Azor with Solen antiquatus Pulteney, as illustrated in Donovan (1804), and it was used in that sense by Brown (1844) and Gray (1851, 1852). "Azor Brown, 1844" [Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. 2: 113] and "Azor Gray, 1851" [List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum, Part 7: 35] are treated by Neave [1939, Nomenclator Zoologicus, 1: 378] and Vokes [1980, Genera of the Bivalvia: 152] as separate names, but Gray was not the first to validate the name (ICZN Art. 50.1 "The author of a name or nomenclatural act is the person who first publishes it") so has no standing as author of a nomenclatural act. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Azor T. Brown, 1844. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=515941 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
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Brown T. (1844). <i>Illustrations of the Recent Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with the description and localities of all the species, marine, land, and fresh water</i>. Ed. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. <em>Drawn and Coloured from Nature. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10921172
page(s): 113 [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]
page(s): 113 [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]
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Nomenclature Name attributed by Brown to Leach. Leach's MS name was first made available by J. de C. Sowerby with a taxonomic extension (based on the Eocene species Sanguinolaria compressa J. de C. Sowerby, 1824, a member of family Psammobiidae) different from Leach's original intention. Leach had associated the name Azor with Solen antiquatus Pulteney, as illustrated in Donovan (1804), and it was used in that sense by Brown (1844) and Gray (1851, 1852). "Azor Brown, 1844" [Illustrations of the recent conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, ed. 2: 113] and "Azor Gray, 1851" [List of the specimens of British animals in the collection of the British Museum, Part 7: 35] are treated by Neave [1939, Nomenclator Zoologicus, 1: 378] and Vokes [1980, Genera of the Bivalvia: 152] as separate names, but Gray was not the first to validate the name (ICZN Art. 50.1 "The author of a name or nomenclatural act is the person who first publishes it") so has no standing as author of a nomenclatural act. [details]
