North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Venus nux Gmelin, 1791

Venus nux

AphiaID

141935 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141935)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Venus Linnaeus, 1758

Original name

Venus nux Gmelin, 1791

Synonymised names

Cytherea multilamella Lamarck, 1818 · unaccepted (synonym)

Venus nuciformis Locard, 1886 · unaccepted

Environment

marine

Original description

Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3289 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Venus nux Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141935 on 2026-08-14

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Venus nux Gmelin, 1791. Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=141935 on 2026-08-14

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2004-12-21 15:54:05Z

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Gofas, Serge

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original description Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Caroli a Linné Systema Naturae, ed. 13. Tome 1(6). Vermes. G. E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. , available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5
page(s): 3289 [details]

original description (of Venus nuciformis Locard, 1886) Locard, A. (1886). Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012
page(s): 288; note: unjustified emendation [details]

original description (of Cytherea multilamella 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): 581 [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 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 Tirado, C.; Rueda, J. L.; Salas, C. (2011). Reproductive cycles in Atlantic and Mediterranean populations of Venus nux Gmelin, 1791 (Bivalvia: Veneridae), from southern Spain. Journal of Shellfish Research. 30(3): 813-820., available online at https://doi.org/10.2983/035.030.0322 [details]