WoRMS taxon details
Cyrtopleura Tryon, 1862
156838 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156838)
accepted
Genus
Pholas cruciger G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 accepted as Cyrtopleura crucigera (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) (type by subsequent designation)
Cyrtopleura (Cyrtopleura) Tryon, 1862 · alternative representation
Cyrtopleura (Scobinopholas) U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931 · alternative representation
Leuconyx H. Adams & A. Adams, 1863 · unaccepted (name rejected by Turner (1969) as...)
name rejected by Turner (1969) as a forgotten name (nomen oblitum) because it was not used as a valid name for 50 years [ICZN 2nd ed, Article 23b]
Pholas (Scobinopholas) U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931 · unaccepted > superseded combination
Scobina Bayle, 1880 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)
invalid: junior homonym of Scobina Lepeletier, 1825 [Coleoptera]; Scobinopholas is a replacement name
- Species Cyrtopleura angelicalis Stakowian & Simone, 2024
- Species Cyrtopleura costata (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Cyrtopleura crucigera (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
- Species Cyrtopleura lanceolata (A. d'Orbigny, 1841)
- Species Cyrtopleura exilis Tryon, 1870 accepted as Cyrtopleura crucigera (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
- Subgenus Cyrtopleura (Scobinopholas) U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931 represented as Cyrtopleura Tryon, 1862
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
feminine
Not documented
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cyrtopleura Tryon, 1862. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156838 on 2025-04-17
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Nomenclature
original description
(of Leuconyx H. Adams & A. Adams, 1863) Adams, H. & Adams, A. (1863). Descriptions of five new genera of Mollusca. <em>The Annals and Magazine of Natural History.</em> (3) 11: 18-20., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/22221472#page/31/mode/1up
page(s): 18 [details]
original description (of Pholas (Scobinopholas) U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931) Grant, U. S. & Gale, H. R. (1931). Catalogue of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California and adjacent region. <em>Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History.</em> 1: 1036 pp., 32 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2834182
page(s): 431 [details]
original description (of Scobina Bayle, 1880) Bayle, E. (1880). Liste rectificative de quelques noms de genres et d'espèces. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 28(3): 240-251., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15919349
page(s): 242 [details]
page(s): 18 [details]
original description (of Pholas (Scobinopholas) U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931) Grant, U. S. & Gale, H. R. (1931). Catalogue of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California and adjacent region. <em>Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History.</em> 1: 1036 pp., 32 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2834182
page(s): 431 [details]
original description (of Scobina Bayle, 1880) Bayle, E. (1880). Liste rectificative de quelques noms de genres et d'espèces. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 28(3): 240-251., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15919349
page(s): 242 [details]
Taxonomy
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]
Other
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]
