MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Malletia obtusa (G. O. Sars, 1872)

WoRMS name details

Malletia obtusa (G. O. Sars, 1872)

AphiaID

151910 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:151910)

Classification

Status

unaccepted > junior homonym (junior primary homonym of Yoldia obtusa Gould, 1861; Pseudomalletia pianii Van Aartsen & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 1991 is a replacement name)

Accepted Name

Malletia pianii (van Aartsen & Giannuzzi-Savelli, 1991)

Rank

Species

Parent

Malletia Desmoulins, 1832

Original name

Yoldia obtusa G. O. Sars, 1872

Synonymised names

Malletia obtusata [sic] · unaccepted (incorrect subsequent spelling)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Yoldia obtusa G. O. Sars, 1872) Sars, G.O. (1872). On some remarkable forms of animal life from the great deeps off the Norwegian coast. Part 1, partly from posthumous manuscripts of the late Professor Dr. Michael Sars. University Program for the 1st half-year 1869. Brøgger & Christie, Christiania viii. 82: 1-6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11677777
page(s): 23, pl. 3 fig. 16-20 [details]

Descriptive notes

Distribution off Massachusetts to North Carolina

Distribution off Massachusetts to North Carolina [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Malletia obtusa (G. O. Sars, 1872). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=151910 on 2025-04-04

Taxonomic edit history

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2005-04-07 12:32:21Z

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Vanden Berghe, Edward

2007-08-29 07:13:38Z

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Gofas, Serge

2010-09-23 10:34:21Z

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Huber, Markus

2010-09-23 10:44:16Z

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Huber, Markus

2012-06-21 23:44:14Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2021-01-15 12:44:04Z

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Herbert, David

2021-01-16 10:00:34Z

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Herbert, David

2022-08-16 14:03:08Z

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Neubauer, Thomas A.

2024-02-24 12:20:14Z

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Gofas, Serge

Licensing

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Nomenclature

original description (of Yoldia obtusa G. O. Sars, 1872) Sars, G.O. (1872). On some remarkable forms of animal life from the great deeps off the Norwegian coast. Part 1, partly from posthumous manuscripts of the late Professor Dr. Michael Sars. University Program for the 1st half-year 1869. Brøgger & Christie, Christiania viii. 82: 1-6., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11677777
page(s): 23, pl. 3 fig. 16-20 [details]

basis of record 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]

Other

context source (Deepsea) Janssen, R. & Krylova, E. M. (2014). Deep-sea fauna of European seas: An annotated species check-list of benthic invertebrates living deeper than 2000 m in the seas bordering Europe. Bivalvia. Invertebrate Zoology. 11 (1): 43–82 [in English]. [details] Available for editors

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additional source Negri, M. P.; Corselli, C. (2016). Bathyal Mollusca from the cold-water coral biotope of Santa Maria di Leuca (Apulian margin, southern Italy). Zootaxa. 4186(1): 1-97., available online at https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4186.1.1
page(s): 17 [details] Available for editors

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additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source Sanders, H. L.; Allen, J. A. (1985). Studies on deep-sea Protobranchia (Bivalvia): the family Malletiidae. Bulletin of the British Museum, Natural History (Zoology). 49: 195-238., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2273659 [details]