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Taxon: Genus Glycymeris da Costa, 1778 (mollusc)
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Authorship

SN2000 author citation:  E.M. da Costa, 1778
Original name:  da Costa, E.M. 1778. Brit. Conch.: 168.

Attributes

Name placed on the Official List of Generic Names in Zoology [ICZN, 1999: Art. 80.6] Ref: J.D.D. Smith (ed.), 2001. Offic. Lists & Indexes Zool. Suppl. 1986-2000: 35 (Opinion 1414).

Types

Type of: Glycymerididae (Family) Dall, 1908 (1847)
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Glycymeris (Subgenus) da Costa, 1778 Ref: F.J. Springsteen & F.M. Leobrera, 1986: 365. [inferred]
Nominotypical taxon [ICZN]: Glycymeris glycymeris (C. Linnaeus, 1758)

Variants

Former rank: Glycymeris (Subgenus) da Costa, 1778 Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 344. [inferred]

Homonyms

Junior similar name: Glycimeris (Genus) Lamarck, 1801

Synonyms

Synonymous name: Axinaea (Genus) Ruiz & Pav. (1794) Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Axinaeoderma (Genus) Poli, 1795 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Glycymerula (Genus) Finlay & Marwick, 1937 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Manaia (Genus) Finlay & Marwick, 1937 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Pectunculigenus (Genus) Renier, 1807 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Pectunculopsis (Genus) Ebert, 1890 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Pectunculus (Genus) Lamarck, 1799
Synonymous name: Pseudaxinaea (Genus) Pallary, 1900 Ref: PBDB: 30 Apr 2013.
Synonymous name: Tuceta (Genus) Röding, 1798 Ref: PBDB: 18 Nov 2014.
Including: Veletuceta (Genus) Iredale, 1931 Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 344.
Including: Veletuceta (Subgenus) Iredale, 1931 Ref: V.G. Millard, 1997: 344. [implicit]

Vernacular Names (Dutch)

Full name: kamschelpen
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