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Pteria vitrea (Reeve, 1857)

156986  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156986)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Pteriomorphia (Infraclass)
  7. Ostreida (Order)
  8. Pterioidea (Superfamily)
  9. Pteriidae (Family)
  10. Pteria (Genus)
  11. Pteria vitrea (Species)
 unaccepted
Species
Avicula nitida A. E. Verrill, 1881 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of...)  
invalid: junior homonym of Avicula nitida Forbes, 1846; A. verrilli is a replacement name
Avicula vitrea Reeve, 1857 · unaccepted > superseded combination
marine
(of Avicula vitrea Reeve, 1857) Reeve, L. A. (1857). Monograph of the genus Avicula. In: Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 8, pls 1-7 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 2-14, March 1857; pls. 1, 15-18, June 1857]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9127570 [details] 
Distribution off Martha's Vineyard, Mass. To Florida (Gulf of Mexico)  
Distribution off Martha's Vineyard, Mass. To Florida (Gulf of Mexico) [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Pteria vitrea (Reeve, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156986 on 2025-05-02
Date
action
by
2005-05-20 11:54:45Z
created
Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z
checked
Rosenberg, Gary
2012-02-26 21:22:40Z
changed
Gofas, Serge

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Nomenclature

original description (of Avicula vitrea Reeve, 1857) Reeve, L. A. (1857). Monograph of the genus Avicula. In: Conchologia Iconica, or illustrations of the shells of molluscous animals, vol. 8, pls 1-7 and unpaginated text. L. Reeve & Co., London. [stated dates: pls. 2-14, March 1857; pls. 1, 15-18, June 1857]. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/9127570 [details] 

basis of record 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] 

Taxonomy

source of synonymy 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

additional source Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

additional source Bieler, R.; Mikkelsen, P. M. (2025). A taxonomic update for "Seashells of Southern Florida – Bivalves" (Mikkelsen and Bieler, 2007) with nomenclatural notes on other bivalve species. The Nautilus. 139(1): 1-27.
page(s): 5 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

 
EMODnet BathymetrySource: EMODnet Bathymetry
Countries
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From editor or global species database
Identification If the synonymy proposed by Huber (2010) is correct, the Western Atlantic records are misidntifications [details]

Unreviewed
Distribution off Martha's Vineyard, Mass. To Florida (Gulf of Mexico) [details]
LanguageName 
English glassy wing-oyster  [details]
German Gläserne Flügelmuschel  [details]
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 publications) (from synonym Avicula nitida A. E. Verrill, 1881)
To PESI 
To PESI (from synonym Avicula vitrea Reeve, 1857)
To ITIS
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