MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Tridonta Schumacher, 1817

ERMS taxon details

Tridonta Schumacher, 1817

AphiaID

146517 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146517)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Type taxon

Tridonta borealis Schumacher, 1817 (type by monotypy)

Parent

Astartidae A. d'Orbigny, 1844 (1840)

Original name

Tridonta Schumacher, 1817

Synonymised names

Nicania Leach, 1819 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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Species Tridonta acuticostata (Friele, 1877)
Species Tridonta arctica (J. E. Gray, 1824)
Species Tridonta borealis Schumacher, 1817
Species Tridonta elliptica (T. Brown, 1827)
Species Tridonta montagui (Dillwyn, 1817)
Species Tridonta warhami (Hancock, 1846)

Environment

marine, brackish

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 146 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Tridonta Schumacher, 1817. 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=146517 on 2026-01-13

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Tridonta Schumacher, 1817. Accessed at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146517 on 2026-01-13

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-01-26 08:41:57Z

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Cuvelier, Daphne

2010-09-10 13:08:08Z

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Huber, Markus

2024-02-12 20:17:13Z

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Dekker, Henk

2025-01-08 13:04:42Z

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Gofas, Serge

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original description Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. Schultz, Copenghagen. iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 146 [details]

original description (of Nicania Leach, 1819) Leach W. E. (1819). A list of invertebrate animals discovered by H. M. S. Isabella, in a voyage to the Arctic regions: corrected by W. E. Leach. Appendix II. p.lxi - lxiv [in] Ross, John A voyage of discovery in His Majesty's ships Isabella and Alexander [in 1818] for the purpose of exploring Baffin's Bay and enquiring into the possibility of a northwest passage. [book]. xxxix+252 pp., 29 pls, 3 maps. John Murray. London., available online at https://archive.org/details/voyageofdiscover02ross/page/n413/mode/2up
page(s): 62 [details]

basis of record Moerdijk, P.W., Janssen, A.W., Wesselingh, F.P., Peeters, G.A., Pouwer, R., Nieulande, F.A.D. van, Janse A.C., Slik, L. van der, Meijer, T. Rijken, R., Cadée, G.C., Hoeksema, D., Doeksen, G., Bastemeijer, A., Strack, H., Vervoenen, M. & Poorten, J.J. ter. (2010). De fossiele schelpen van de Nederlandse kust. Nederlands Centrum voor Biodiversiteit Naturalis, Leiden. 332 pp.
page(s): 152-155 [details] Available for editors

additional source Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in RoR) [details] Available for editors

additional source Scarlato, O. A. (1981). Двустворчатые моллюски умеренных вод северо-западной части Тихого океана. Bivalve molluscs of the temperate latitudes of the western part of the Pacific Ocean. Определители по фауне СССР. Guides to the fauna of the USSR. 126: Nauka, Leningrad, 479 pp.
page(s): 295 [details] Available for editors

additional source Huber, M. (2010). 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. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in RoR) [details]