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Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758)

140733 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140733)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia
  3. Mollusca
  4. Bivalvia
  5. Autobranchia
  6. Heteroconchia
  7. Euheterodonta
  8. Imparidentia
  9. Adapedonta
  10. Solenoidea
  11. Pharidae
  12. Cultellinae
  13. Ensis
  14. Ensis ensis
accepted
Species
Ensis Schumacher, 1817
Ensatella europaea Swainson, 1840 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Ensis phaxoides Van Urk, 1964 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Solen ensis Linnaeus, 1758 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine
(of Solen ensis Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 672 [details] Available for editors  PDF available
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140733 on 2026-08-12
Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=140733 on 2026-08-12
Date
action
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
created
Gofas, Serge
2009-09-05 11:22:23Z
changed
von Cosel, Rudo

original description (of Ensis phaxoides Van Urk, 1964) van Urk R.M. (1964). The genus <i>Ensis</i> in Europe. <i>Basteria 28</i>: 13-44, available online at https://natuurtijdschriften.nl/pub/596459 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

original description (of Solen ensis Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Tomus I. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886
page(s): 672 [details] Available for editors  PDF available

original description (of Ensatella europaea Swainson, 1840) Swainson, W. (1840). A treatise on malacology; or the natural classification of shells and shell-fish. Longman, London, viii + 419 pp., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/33450
page(s): 365 [details] 

basis of record Cosel R. von, 2009. The razor shells of the eastern Atlantic, part 2. Pharidae II: the genus <i>Ensis</i> Schumacher, 1817 (Bivalvia, Solenoidea). <i>Basteria</i>, 73: 9-56 , available online at http://natuurtijdschriften.nl/download?type=document&docid=597354 [details] 
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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LanguageName 
Dutch slanke kleine zwaardschedekleine zwaardschede  [details]
English common razor shell  [details]
French couteau  [details]
BIOTIC 
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland 
To Barcode of Life (30 barcodes) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (501 publications) (from synonym Solen ensis Linnaeus, 1758)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (88 publications) 
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ensis ensis) 
To GenBank (57 nucleotides; 25 proteins) 
To Malacopics (Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758) Greece, Voreio Aigaio, Lesvos, Kolpos Kallonis , at 2 ... 
To Malacopics (Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758) Morocco, Sous-Massa-Draa, Agadir, beached, collected 1... 
To Malacopics (Ensis ensis (Linnaeus, 1758) North Sea, Black Bank, ex coll. J. Trausel .) 
To Malacopics (Ensis ensis (Linnaeus,1758) HOLOTYPE Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Katwijk) 
To Malacopics (Ensis ensis (Linnaeus,1758) PARATYPE Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Scheveningen) 
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales 
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Solen ensis Linnaeus, 1758)
To PESI (from synonym Ensatella europaea Swainson, 1840)
To PESI (from synonym Ensis phaxoides Van Urk, 1964)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection (from synonym Solen ensis Linnaeus, 1758)
To ITIS
Unreviewed