MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Meretricinae Gray, 1847

ERMS taxon details

Meretricinae Gray, 1847

AphiaID

510755 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:510755)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Subfamily

Parent

Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815

Direct children (2)

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Genus Meretrix Lamarck, 1799
Genus Cytherea Lamarck, 1805 accepted as Meretrix Lamarck, 1799 (Invalid: junior homonym of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794 [Diptera] and Cytherea Röding, 1798)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

Not documented

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Meretricinae Gray, 1847. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2024) European Register of Marine Species at: https://marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=510755 on 2024-04-16

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2024). European Register of Marine Species. Meretricinae Gray, 1847. Accessed at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=510755 on 2024-04-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-08-31 09:46:09Z

created

Tran, Bastien

2012-10-12 19:36:57Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2021-06-28 14:33:01Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

Licensing

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Sources (2)

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]

redescription Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]