WoRMS

WoRMS taxon details

Pitar affinis (Gmelin, 1791)

AphiaID

215025 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215025)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pitar Römer, 1857

Original name

Venus affinis Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Cytherea cordiformis Dunker, 1849 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Cytherea inflata G. B. Sowerby, 1851 · unaccepted > junior homonym (invalid: not Goldfuss, 1841)

Cytherea laeta Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted

Meretrix affinis (Gmelin, 1791) · unaccepted

Pitar obliquata (Hanley, 1844) sensu P. G. Oliver et al., 2004 · unaccepted

Venus affinis Gmelin, 1791 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

(of Venus affinis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pitar affinis (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215025 on 2025-04-05

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

1997-11-21 08:42:41Z

created

Fondo, Esther

2002-08-06 16:41:02Z

changed

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-09-23 10:34:21Z

changed

Huber, Markus

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Cytherea cordiformis Dunker, 1849) Dunker, W. (1849). Diagnoses molluscorum novorum. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 5(12): 177-186. [published April 1849]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16292371
page(s): 185 [details]

original description (of Cytherea laeta Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 567 [details]

original description (of Venus affinis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13. 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]

basis of record Dautzenberg, P. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. Journal de Conchyliologie. 68: 21-74., available online at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5656754n [details]

Other

context source (HKRMS) Scott, V. P. (2003).A taxonomic distributional and bibliographic checklist of Hong Kong marine bivalve molluscs and research published on them from 1971-2000. In: Proceedings of an International Workshop Reunion Conference, Hong Kong: Perspectives on Marine Environment Change in Hong Kong and Southern China, 1977-2001 (ed. Morton, B.), pp259-310. Hong Kong University Press, Hong Kong. [details]

additional source Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales. 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Spencer, H.G., Marshall, B.A. & Willan, R.C. (2009). Checklist of New Zealand living Mollusca. Pp 196-219. in: Gordon, D.P. (ed.) New Zealand inventory of biodiversity. Volume one. Kingdom Animalia: Radiata, Lophotrochozoa, Deuterostomia. Canterbury University Press, Christchurch. [details]

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 IMIS) [details]

additional source Liu, J.Y. [Ruiyu] (ed.). (2008). Checklist of marine biota of China seas. China Science Press. 1267 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors