North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS taxon details

Tagelus plebeius ([Lightfoot], 1786)

AphiaID

157001 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157001)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Tagelus J. E. Gray, 1847

Original name

Solen plebeius [Lightfoot], 1786

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of ) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. [book]. London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 42, 100 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Tagelus plebeius ([Lightfoot], 1786). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=157001 on 2026-06-21

Regional species database citation

NARMS (2026). Tagelus plebeius ([Lightfoot], 1786). Accessed at: https://www.vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=157001 on 2026-06-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2005-05-20 11:54:45Z

created

Cuvelier, Daphne

2010-03-31 06:40:42Z

checked

Rosenberg, Gary

2021-07-16 06:34:16Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2026-01-04 18:04:08Z

changed

Nielsen, Sven

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original description (of ) Lightfoot, J. (1786). A Catalogue of the Portland Museum, lately the property of the Duchess Dowager of Portland, deceased; which will be sold by auction by Mr. Skinner & Co. [book]. London. viii + 194 pp., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/43259464
page(s): 42, 100 [details]

basis of record Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [details]

additional source Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] Available for editors

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]