WoRMS name details
Cytherea alucinans G. B. Sowerby III, 1897
572288 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:572288)
unaccepted (original combination)
Species
Cytherea Lamarck, 1805 accepted as Meretrix Lamarck, 1799
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
(of Cytherea (Tivela) alucinans G. B. Sowerby III, 1897) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1897). <i>Appendix to marine shells of South Africa: a catalogue of all the known species with references to figures in various works, descriptions of new species, and figures of such as are new, little known, or hitherto unfigured</i>. London: G.B. Sowerby, 42 pp., 8 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13297112
page(s): 24, pl. 7, figs 5, 6. [details]
page(s): 24, pl. 7, figs 5, 6. [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cytherea alucinans G. B. Sowerby III, 1897. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=572288 on 2025-04-05
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Cytherea (Tivela) alucinans G. B. Sowerby III, 1897) Sowerby, G. B. III. (1897). <i>Appendix to marine shells of South Africa: a catalogue of all the known species with references to figures in various works, descriptions of new species, and figures of such as are new, little known, or hitherto unfigured</i>. London: G.B. Sowerby, 42 pp., 8 pls. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13297112
page(s): 24, pl. 7, figs 5, 6. [details]
page(s): 24, pl. 7, figs 5, 6. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Kilburn R.N. (1973). The type material of South African marine Mollusca in the Natal Museum collection. Part 1. Bivalvia. Annals of the Natal Museum 21(3):697-711. [details]
Other
additional source
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] 
