MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777

ERMS taxon details

Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777

AphiaID

181560 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:181560)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Parent

Sphaeriinae Deshayes, 1855 (1820)

Original name

Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777

Synonymised names

Cyclas Lamarck, 1798 · unaccepted > junior objective synonym

Musculium Link, 1807 · unaccepted > superseded rank

Sphaerium (Musculium) Link, 1807 · alternative representation

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Species Sphaerium lacustre (O. F. Müller, 1774)
Subgenus Sphaerium (Musculium) Link, 1807 represented as Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Scopoli, G.A. (1777). Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. Pragae. Wolfgang Gerle. Pp i-x + 1-506., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10827
page(s): 397 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org//www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181560 on 2026-04-13

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777. Accessed at: http://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=181560 on 2026-04-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-09-26 07:16:30Z

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Claus, Simon

2010-07-10 09:41:30Z

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Gofas, Serge

2015-12-05 01:34:12Z

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Bieler, Rüdiger

2016-02-22 19:49:42Z

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Marshall, Bruce

2022-03-15 12:20:20Z

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Vinarski, Maxim

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original description Scopoli, G.A. (1777). Introductio ad historiam naturalem, sistens genera lapidum, plantarum et animalium hactenus detecta, caracteribus essentialibus donata, in tribus divisa, subinde ad leges naturae. Pragae. Wolfgang Gerle. Pp i-x + 1-506., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/bibliography/10827
page(s): 397 [details]

original description (of Musculium Link, 1807) Link, D. H. F. (1806-1808). Beschreibung der Naturalien-Sammlung der Universität zu Rostock. Adlers Erben, Rostock; 1, pp. 1-50 [1806]; 2, pp. 51-100 [1807]; 3, pp. 101-165 [1807]; 4, pp. 1-30 [1807]; 5, pp. 1-38 [1808]; 6, pp. 1-38 [1808]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43301237
page(s): 152 [details]

original description (of Cyclas Lamarck, 1798) Lamarck [J.B.P.A. de M. de]. ([1798]). Tableau encyclopédique et méthodique des trois règnes de la nature, Mollusques Testacés. Part 21 [Livraison 64, 29 April 1798]: pls. 287-390 , Paris: H. Agasse [date and publisher after Evenhuis & Petit 2003]. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41695113
page(s): pl. 301-302 [details]

basis of record Vinarski, M. V.; Kantor, Yu. I. (2016). Analytical catalogue of fresh and brackish water molluscs of Russia and adjacent countries. A. N. Severtsov Institute of Ecology and Evolution of Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, 544 pp.
page(s): 85 [details] Available for editors

additional source Clench, W. J. & Turner, R. D. (1956). Freshwater mollusks of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida from the Escambia to the Suwannee River. Bulletin of the Florida State Museum, Biological Sciences. 1(3): 97-239, pls. 1-9., available online at https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/35/2017/03/Vol-1-No-3.pdf
page(s): 215 [details]

additional source Allen, J. A. (1911). Notes on collecting Sphaerium and Pisidium. The Nautilus. 24(12): 141-142., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/1760957 [details]

additional source Carpenter, H. F. (1889). The shell-bearing Mollusca of Rhode Island. The Nautilus. 3(1): 11-12; 3(2): 21-23; 3(3): 32-33; 3(5): 56-59; 3(6): 69-71; 3(7): 82-83; 3(8): 92-95., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12596377
page(s): 11 [details]

additional source Becher, E. F. (1886). A Sind lake. Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society. 1(3): 91-96., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2061369
page(s): 96; note: An unidentified species [details]

status source Lee, T.; Foighil, D. Ó. (2003). Phylogenetic structure of the Sphaeriinae, a global clade of freshwater bivalve molluscs, inferred from nuclear (ITS-1) and mitochondrial (16S) ribosomal gene sequences. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 137(2): 245-260., available online at https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1096-3642.2003.00047.x [details] Available for editors