North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Cyrtodaria siliqua (L. Spengler, 1793)

AphiaID

140102 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140102)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Cyrtodaria Reuss, 1801

Original name

Mya siliqua L. Spengler, 1793

Environment

marine

Original description

(of ) Spengler L. (1793). Beskrivelse over et nyt Slægt af de toskallede Konchylier, forhen af mig kaldet Chæna, saa og over det Linnéiske Slægt Mya, hvilket nøiere bestemmes, og inddeles i tvende Slægter. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet. 3(1): 16-69, pl. 2., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044106425119;view=1up;seq=24
page(s): 48 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cyrtodaria siliqua (Spengler, 1793). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=140102 on 2026-07-02

Regional species database citation

NARMS (2026). Cyrtodaria siliqua (L. Spengler, 1793). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=140102 on 2026-07-02

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

created

Gofas, Serge

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original description (of ) Spengler L. (1793). Beskrivelse over et nyt Slægt af de toskallede Konchylier, forhen af mig kaldet Chæna, saa og over det Linnéiske Slægt Mya, hvilket nøiere bestemmes, og inddeles i tvende Slægter. Skrivter af Naturhistorie-Selskabet. 3(1): 16-69, pl. 2., available online at https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044106425119;view=1up;seq=24
page(s): 48 [details]

basis of record Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]

additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [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 Nesis, K. N. (1965). Ecology of Cyrtodaria siliqua and history of the genus Cyrtodaria (Bivalvia: Hiatellidae). Malacologia. 3(2): 197-210., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13032247 [details]