MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1855 (1820)

ERMS taxon details

Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1855 (1820)

AphiaID

489101 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:489101)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Family

Parent

Sphaerioidea Deshayes, 1855 (1820)

Synonymised names

Pisidiidae Gray, 1857 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Subfamily Sphaeriinae Deshayes, 1855 (1820)
1. Genus Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777
2. Genus Cyclas Lamarck, 1798 accepted as Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777 (unaccepted > junior objective synonym)
3. Genus Musculium Link, 1807 accepted as Sphaerium (Musculium) Link, 1807 represented as Sphaerium Scopoli, 1777 (unaccepted > superseded rank)
Subfamily Pisidiinae Gray, 1857 accepted as Sphaeriinae Deshayes, 1855 (1820)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Deshayes, G. P. (1853-1855). Catalogue of the Conchifera or bivalve shells in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London, Part I. Cyprinidae, Veneridae and Glauconomidae, pp. ii + 216 pp. [introduction by J. E. Gray] [27 June 1853]; Part II, Petricoladae (concluded), Corbiculadae, pp. 217-292 [title page dated "1854"; 12 May 1855]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60978
page(s): 2: 261 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1855 (1820). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=489101 on 2026-04-29

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Sphaeriidae Deshayes, 1855 (1820). Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=489101 on 2026-04-29

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-07-10 09:41:30Z

created

Gofas, Serge

2015-10-13 13:14:56Z

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Bieler, Rüdiger

2015-12-05 01:34:12Z

changed

Bieler, Rüdiger

2022-04-25 14:05:09Z

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Vinarski, Maxim

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original description Deshayes, G. P. (1853-1855). Catalogue of the Conchifera or bivalve shells in the collection of the British Museum. British Museum, London, Part I. Cyprinidae, Veneridae and Glauconomidae, pp. ii + 216 pp. [introduction by J. E. Gray] [27 June 1853]; Part II, Petricoladae (concluded), Corbiculadae, pp. 217-292 [title page dated "1854"; 12 May 1855]. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/60978
page(s): 2: 261 [details]

basis of record Bieler, R.; Carter, J. G.; Coan, E. V. (2010). Classification of Bivalve families. Pp. 113-133, in: Bouchet P. & Rocroi J.-P. (2010), Nomenclator of Bivalve Families. Malacologia. 52(2): 1-184. [details]

additional source Mackie, G. L. (2007). Biology of freshwater corbiculid and sphaeriid clams of North America. Ohio Biological Survey Bulletin New Series. 15 (3: i-ix): 1-436. [details]

additional source Korniushin, A.V. (1996). Bivalve molluscs of the superfamily Pisidioidea in the Palaearctic region. Fauna, systematics, phylogeny, 176 pp. [in Russian]. [20 June]. Kiev (National Academy of Science of Ukraine – Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology). [details]

additional source Bartsch, P. (1944). Taxonomic headaches. The Nautilus. 57(4): 116-118 [April]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8515576 [details]

additional source Bespalaya Yu.V., Vinarski M.V., Aksenova O.V., Babushkin E.S., Gofarov M.Yu., Kondakov A.V., Konopleva E.S., Kropotin A.V., Mabrouki Y., Ovchankova N.B., Palatov D.M., Sokolova S.E., Shevchenko A.R., Travina O.V., Taybi A.F., Sob-oleva A.A., Zubrii N.A., Bolotov I.N. (2024). Phylogeny, taxonomy, and biogeography of the Sphaeriinae (Bivalvia: Sphaeriidae). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 201(2): 305-338. [Advance access publication 4 November 2023]., available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad139 [details] Available for editors

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