MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Dendostrea Swainson, 1835

WoRMS taxon details

Dendostrea Swainson, 1835

AphiaID

415280 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:415280)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Genus

Typetaxon

Ostrea folium Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Dendostrea folium (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by subsequent designation)

Parent

Ostreinae Rafinesque, 1815

Original name

Dendostrea Swainson, 1835

Synonymised names

Dendostraea · unaccepted (misspelling by Sowerby, 1839)

Dendrostraea · unaccepted (misspelling by Swainson, 1840)

Dendrostrea · unaccepted (misspelling by Woodward, 1851)

Ostrea (Dendostrea) Swainson, 1835 · unaccepted

Pretostrea Iredale, 1939 · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

Direct children (12)

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Species Dendostrea cristata (Born, 1778)
Species Dendostrea folium (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Dendostrea frons (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Dendostrea rosacea (Deshayes, 1836)
Species Dendostrea sandvichensis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871)
Species Dendostrea senegalensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Dendostrea trapezina (Lamarck, 1819)
Species Dendostrea amara (P. P. Carpenter, 1863) accepted as Saccostrea palmula (P. P. Carpenter, 1857)
Species Dendostrea crenulifera (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871) accepted as Dendostrea sandvichensis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871)
Species Dendostrea glaucina (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Dendostrea cristata (Born, 1778)
Species Dendostrea inaequivalvis (G. B. Sowerby II, 1871) accepted as Hyotissa numisma (Lamarck, 1819)
Species Dendostrea turbinata (Lamarck, 1819) accepted as Saccostrea cuccullata (Born, 1778)

Environment

marine

Original description

Swainson, W. (1835). The elements of modern conchology. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 62 pp., available online at http://books.google.fr/books?id=0eW-_B8V6IQC
page(s): 39 [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Dendostrea Swainson, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=415280 on 2025-04-03

Taxonomic edit history

Date

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2009-09-23 14:01:30Z

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db_admin

2010-11-15 18:31:16Z

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Gofas, Serge

2011-08-02 17:37:26Z

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Rosenberg, Gary

2011-10-30 10:35:41Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2012-07-14 18:15:09Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2015-02-14 13:10:31Z

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Bouchet, Philippe

2024-02-03 02:16:11Z

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Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License

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Nomenclature

original description Swainson, W. (1835). The elements of modern conchology. Baldwin & Cradock, London, 62 pp., available online at http://books.google.fr/books?id=0eW-_B8V6IQC
page(s): 39 [details]

original description (of Pretostrea Iredale, 1939) Iredale, T. (1939). Mollusca. Part I. Scientific Reports of the Great Barrier Reef Expedition 1928-1929. 5(6): 209-425, pls 1-7., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/49513635
page(s): 397 [details]

Taxonomy

redescription Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]

Other

context source (MSBIAS) MEDIN. (2011). UK checklist of marine species derived from the applications Marine Recorder and UNICORN. version 1.0. [details]

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Introduced: alien

Containing type locality

From editor or global species database

Spelling Dendostrea is often corrected to Dendrostrea or Dendrostraea on etymological grounds, but as the original spelling is in prevailing use, and was used in the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, it is maintained here. (Gary Rosenberg, 2 August 2011) [details]

Definitions

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Unreviewed

Dendostrea folium

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