MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Ensatella Swainson, 1840

WoRMS name details

Ensatella Swainson, 1840

AphiaID

413704 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:413704)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior subjective synonym (synonym)

Accepted name

Ensis Schumacher, 1817

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Ensatella europaea Swainson, 1840 accepted as Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Pharidae H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856

Original name

Ensatella Swainson, 1840

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Species Ensatella europaea Swainson, 1840 accepted as Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent only

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 365 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ensatella Swainson, 1840. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413704 on 2025-04-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-09-06 20:15:22Z

created

von Cosel, Rudo

2010-09-02 16:49:56Z

changed

Gofas, Serge

2010-09-10 13:08:08Z

changed

Huber, Markus

2024-02-09 09:01:38Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

Licensing

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

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Nomenclature

original description Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 365 [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]

Other

additional source Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 107 [details]

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Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758)

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Shell common razor clam

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Ensis ensis

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Eben (1884, plaat 5)

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