North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Cytherea Röding, 1798

AphiaID

204301 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:204301)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym (junior homonym of Cytherea Fabricius, 1794 [Diptera])

Accepted name

Periglypta Jukes-Browne, 1914

Rank

Genus

Parent

Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Cytherea Röding, 1798

Direct children (10)

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Species Cytherea apicalis R. A. Philippi, 1836 accepted as Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Cytherea arabica Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Circenita varia (Forsskål, 1775) (synonym)
Species Cytherea gracilenta Locard, 1891 accepted as Pitar rudis (Poli, 1795)
Species Cytherea lunaris Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Dosinia lupinus (Linnaeus, 1758) (synonym)
Species Cytherea mediterranea Aradas & Benoit, 1872 accepted as Pitar mediterraneus (Aradas & Benoit, 1872)
Species Cytherea minuta T. Brown, 1827 accepted as Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803) (synonym)
Species Cytherea multilamella Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Venus nux Gmelin, 1791 (synonym)
Species Cytherea rugata Locard, 1891 accepted as Pitar rudis (Poli, 1795)
Species Cytherea sismondae Calcara, 1845 accepted as Gouldia minima (Montagu, 1803) (synonym)
Species Cytherea venetiana Lamarck, 1818 accepted as Pitar rudis (Poli, 1795)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Grammatical gender

feminine

Original description

Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 177 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2026). MolluscaBase. Cytherea Röding, 1798. Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026) European Register of Marine Species at: http://www.marbef.org/data/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=204301 on 2026-06-27

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Cytherea Röding, 1798. Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=204301 on 2026-06-27

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2001-11-14 15:35:57Z

created

Vanden Berghe, Edward

2010-09-10 13:08:08Z

checked

Huber, Markus

2011-05-03 20:37:57Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2012-10-12 19:36:57Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2019-09-10 06:44:12Z

changed

Vinarski, Maxim

2026-06-23 07:07:09Z

changed

Schneider, Simon

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Sources (3)

original description Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659
page(s): 177 [details]

basis of record Vaught, K.C.; Abbott, R.T.; Boss, K.J. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne. ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] Available for editors

additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]