North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Pecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758)

AphiaID

151612 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151612)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank

Species

Parent

Pecten O. F. Müller, 1776

Original name

Ostrea opercularis Linnaeus, 1758

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Variety Pecten opercularis var. albopurpurascens Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Variety Pecten opercularis var. albovariegata Clément, 1874 accepted as Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Variety Pecten opercularis var. aspera Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889 accepted as Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Variety Pecten opercularis var. concolor Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1889 accepted as Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Variety Pecten opercularis var. depressa Locard, 1888 accepted as Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Variety Pecten opercularis var. elongata Jeffreys, 1864 accepted as Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Variety Pecten opercularis var. luteus Lamarck, 1819 accepted as Aequipecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)

Environment

marine, ~~fresh~~, ~~terrestrial~~

Original description

(of Ostrea opercularis Linnaeus, 1758) Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii. Holmiae [Stockholm]. [iii] + 824 pp. , available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/726886 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: http://marbef.org//marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151612 on 2026-06-22

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Pecten opercularis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=151612 on 2026-06-22

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-04-06 17:26:17Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2011-10-19 22:47:22Z

changed

Rosenberg, Gary

2023-12-03 23:08:26Z

changed

Auffenberg, Kurt

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

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

basis of record Eneman, E. (1984). Uit het Natuurhistorisch Archief [From the Natural History Archive]. De Strandvlo 4(1): 4-17 (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Gabb, W. M. (1873). On the topography and geology of Santo Domingo. Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, new series. 15(1): 49-259, 2 maps., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/46059253
page(s): 256 [details]

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (562 publications)
To PESI
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection