North Atlantic Register of Marine Species (NARMS)

NARMS name details

Syndesmya alba (W. Wood, 1802)

AphiaID

751328 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:751328)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > superseded combination

Accepted name

Abra alba (W. Wood, 1802)

Rank

Species

Parent

Syndesmya [sic] accepted as Syndosmya Récluz, 1843 accepted as Abra Lamarck, 1818

Original name

Mactra alba W. Wood, 1802

Direct children (2)

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Variety Syndesmya alba var. apesa De Gregorio, 1884 accepted as Abra alba (W. Wood, 1802) (synonym)
Variety Syndesmya alba var. curta Jeffreys, 1864 accepted as Abra alba (W. Wood, 1802) (synonym)

Environment

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

Fossil range

recent + fossil

Original description

(of Mactra alba W. Wood, 1802) Wood W. 1802. Observations on the hinges of British Bivalve shells. <i>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London</i>, 6: 154-176, pl. 14-18. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/758287
page(s): p. 165, pl. 16 fig. 9-12 [details] Available for editors

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Syndesmya alba (W. Wood, 1802). Accessed through: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2025) European Register of Marine Species at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=751328 on 2026-01-21

Regional species database citation

Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvanitidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2026). European Register of Marine Species. Syndesmya alba (W. Wood, 1802). Accessed at: https://vliz.be/vmdcdata/narms/narms.php?p=taxdetails&id=751328 on 2026-01-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2014-01-31 09:42:27Z

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Gofas, Serge

2024-01-11 08:57:20Z

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Vinarski, Maxim

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original description (of Mactra alba W. Wood, 1802) Wood W. 1802. Observations on the hinges of British Bivalve shells. <i>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London</i>, 6: 154-176, pl. 14-18. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/758287
page(s): p. 165, pl. 16 fig. 9-12 [details] Available for editors

additional source Zhizhchenko, B. P. (Ed.). (1959). Atlas srednemiotsenovoy fauny Severnogo Kavkaza i Kryma [Atlas of the Middle Miocene Fauna of the North Caucasus and Crimea]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Moskva, 390 pp.
page(s): 204 [details] Available for editors

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