MolluscaBase - Cytheraea polita G. B. Sowerby II, 1851

WoRMS name details

Cytheraea polita G. B. Sowerby II, 1851

AphiaID

539349 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:539349)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Cytheraea polita Lamarck, 1806)

Accepted Name

Tivela damaoides (W. Wood, 1828)

Rank

Species

Parent

Cytheraea Lamarck, 1805 accepted as Meretrix Lamarck, 1799

Original name

Cytheraea polita G. B. Sowerby II, 1851

Environment

marine

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cytheraea polita G. B. Sowerby II, 1851. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=539349 on 2025-04-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-11-10 15:53:17Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2010-11-10 16:07:33Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2022-03-04 19:19:58Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

Licensing

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

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Sources (2)

Nomenclature

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

Other

additional source 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]