MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Ensiculus H. Adams, 1861

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Ensiculus H. Adams, 1861

AphiaID

413605 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:413605)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Solen cultellus Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Ensiculus cultellus (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)

Parent

Cultellinae A. M. Davies, 1935

Original name

Ensiculus H. Adams, 1861

Synonymised names

Cultellus (Ensiculus) H. Adams, 1861 · unaccepted

Phaxas (Ensiculus) H. Adams, 1861 · unaccepted

Direct children (8)

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Species Ensiculus aspersus (Clessin, 1888)
Species Ensiculus australis (Dunker, 1862)
Species Ensiculus concinnus (Dunker, 1862)
Species Ensiculus cultellus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Ensiculus cumingianus (Dunker, 1862)
Species Ensiculus marmoratus (Dunker, 1862)
Species Ensiculus philippianus (Dunker, 1877) accepted as Ensiculus cultellus (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > junior subjective synonym)
Species Ensiculus maculatus (Preston, 1905) (uncertain > unassessed, use in recent literature not established by editor)

Environment

marine

Grammatical gender

masculine

Original description

Adams, H. (1861). On two new genera of acephalous molluscs. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1860) 28: 369., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12866937 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Ensiculus H. Adams, 1861. Accessed at: https://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=413605 on 2025-02-16

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2009-09-04 23:13:12Z

created

von Cosel, Rudo

2010-03-23 11:49:33Z

changed

Tran, Bastien

2013-12-02 13:43:26Z

changed

Sartori, André F.

2017-06-26 17:18:13Z

changed

Bouchet, Philippe

2023-03-08 19:33:09Z

changed

Dekker, Henk

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original description Adams, H. (1861). On two new genera of acephalous molluscs. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1860) 28: 369., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12866937 [details]

Present

Inaccurate

Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

Definitions

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To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Ensiculus)
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