MarBEF Data System - ERMS - Pteria sterna (A. Gould, 1851)

MolluscaBase taxon details

Pteria sterna (A. Gould, 1851)

To ANSP Malacology Collection (holotype of Pteria beiliana. Olsson, 1961. Mollusks of the Tropical Eastern Pacific : 146, pl. 18, figs. 5-5c - catalog no. 218932)

AphiaID

464505 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:464505)

Classification

Status

accepted

Rank

Species

Parent

Pteria Scopoli, 1777

Original name

Avicula sterna A. Gould, 1851

Synonymised names

Avicula (Meleagrina) fimbriata Dunker, 1852 · unaccepted (synonym)

Avicula eximia Reeve, 1857 · unaccepted (invalid: junior homonym of Pteria...)

invalid: junior homonym of Pteria eximia de Verneuil, 1845

Avicula libella Reeve, 1857 · unaccepted (synonym)

Avicula peruviana Reeve, 1857 · unaccepted (synonym)

Avicula sterna A. Gould, 1851 · unaccepted (superseded combination)

Avicula vivesi Rochebrune, 1895 · unaccepted (synonym)

Pteria beiliana Olsson, 1961 · unaccepted (synonym)

Pteria rositae Hertlein, 1928 † · unaccepted (synonym)

Environment

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

Original description

(of Avicula sterna A. Gould, 1851) Gould, A.A. (1851). [... descriptions of a number of California shells collected by Maj. William Rich and Lieut. Thomas P. Green, United States Navy ...]. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 4 (4): 87-93., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870797
page(s): 93 [details]

Type data

Type locality contained in Mazatlan

type locality contained in Mazatlan [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]

Taxonomic citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Pteria sterna (A. Gould, 1851). Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464505 on 2024-11-21

Taxonomic edit history

Date

action

2010-03-09 16:12:34Z

created

Tëmkin, Ilya

2023-09-30 02:31:09Z

changed

Marshall, Bruce

Licensing

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

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original description (of Avicula sterna A. Gould, 1851) Gould, A.A. (1851). [... descriptions of a number of California shells collected by Maj. William Rich and Lieut. Thomas P. Green, United States Navy ...]. Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural History. 4 (4): 87-93., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/8870797
page(s): 93 [details]

original description (of Pteria beiliana Olsson, 1961) Olsson, A. A. (1961). Mollusks of the tropical eastern Pacific, particularly from the southern half of the Panamic-Pacific faunal province (Panama to Peru). Panamic-Pacific Pelecypoda. Paleontological Research Institution, Ithaca. 574 pp, 86 pl., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/29909
page(s): 146 [details]

original description (of Avicula eximia 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
page(s): pl. 16, species no. 62 [details]

original description (of Avicula libella 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
page(s): pl. 17, species no. 69 [details]

original description (of Avicula peruviana 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
page(s): pl. 14, species no. 53 [details]

original description (of Avicula vivesi Rochebrune, 1895) Rochebrune A.-T. de. (1895). Diagnoses de Mollusques nouveaux, provenant du voyage de M. Diguet en Basse-Californie. Bulletin du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle. 1: 239–243., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42836368
page(s): 240 [details]

original description (of Avicula (Meleagrina) fimbriata Dunker, 1852) Dunker, W. (1852). Aviculacea nova. Zeitschrift für Malakozoologie. 9(5): 73–80., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16300771
page(s): 79 [details]

original description (of Pteria rositae Hertlein, 1928 †) Hertlein, L. G. (1928). Preliminary report of the paleontology of the Channel Islands, California. Journal of Paleontology. 2(2): 142-157, pls 22-25.
page(s): 150 [details]

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. Revista peruana de biología. 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]

additional source Valentich-Scott, P.; Coan, E. V.; Zelaya, D. (2020). Bivalve seashells of western South America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Punta Aguja, Peru to Isla Chiloé, Chile. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. vii + 593 pp.
page(s): 161, pl. 52 [details]

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]