MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Axinulus brevis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898)

ERMS taxon details

Axinulus brevis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898)

AphiaID

234163 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:234163)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Axinulus A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898

Original name

Cryptodon (Axinulus) brevis A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898

Synonymised names

Axinulus (Axinulus) brevis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898) · alternative representation

Cryptodon (Axinulus) brevis A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898 · alternative representation

Thyasira brevis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898) · unaccepted > superseded combination

Environment

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

Original description

(of Cryptodon (Axinulus) brevis A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898) Verrill A.E. & Bush K.J. (1898). Revision of the deep-water Mollusca of the Atlantic coast of North America, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part I. Bivalvia. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 20: 775-901, pl. 71-97., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15838668
page(s): 790; pl. 89 fig. 7-8 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Axinulus brevis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234163 on 2026-05-10

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Axinulus brevis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898). Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=234163 on 2026-05-10

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2006-10-10 07:42:48Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2013-11-06 18:42:22Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2023-06-18 00:21:19Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

Licensing

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original description (of Cryptodon (Axinulus) brevis A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898) Verrill A.E. & Bush K.J. (1898). Revision of the deep-water Mollusca of the Atlantic coast of North America, with descriptions of new genera and species. Part I. Bivalvia. Proceedings of the United States National Museum. 20: 775-901, pl. 71-97., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15838668
page(s): 790; pl. 89 fig. 7-8 [details]

context source (Deepsea) Janssen, R. & Krylova, E. M. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Bivalvia. Invertebrate Zoology. 11 (1): 43–82 [in English]., available online at https://doi.org/10.15298/invertzool.11.1.06 [details] Available for editors

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

Language	Name
English	short cleftclam [from synonym]	[details]

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) (from synonym Thyasira brevis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications)
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales
To PESI (from synonym Thyasira brevis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898))
To PESI (from synonym Axinulus (Axinulus) brevis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898))
To PESI
To PESI (from synonym Cryptodon (Axinulus) brevis A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Thyasira brevis (A. E. Verrill & K. J. Bush, 1898))
To ITIS