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Aequipecten opercularis
Taxonomy
Ostrea opercularis was named by Linnaeus (1758) [DISTRIBUTION: Pleistocene-Recent; Western Europe.]. It is extant.
It was recombined as Pecten opercularis by Lamarck (1819) and Wood (1850); it was recombined as Chlamys opercularis by van Regteren Altena (1937); it was recombined as Pecten (Chlamys) opercularis by Heering (1950); it was recombined as Pecten (Aequipecten) opercularis by Heering (1950); it was recombined as Chlamys (Aequipecten) opercularis by Glibert (1957); it was recombined as Lyropecten (Aequipecten) opercularis by van Regteren Altena et al. (1969); it was synonymized subjectively with Entolium orbiculare by Dhondt (1971); it was recombined as Aequipecten (Aequipecten) opercularis by Cavallo and Repetto (1992); it was recombined as Aequipecten opercularis by Lucas (1979), Woodring (1982) and Marquet and Dijkstra (2000).
It was recombined as Pecten opercularis by Lamarck (1819) and Wood (1850); it was recombined as Chlamys opercularis by van Regteren Altena (1937); it was recombined as Pecten (Chlamys) opercularis by Heering (1950); it was recombined as Pecten (Aequipecten) opercularis by Heering (1950); it was recombined as Chlamys (Aequipecten) opercularis by Glibert (1957); it was recombined as Lyropecten (Aequipecten) opercularis by van Regteren Altena et al. (1969); it was synonymized subjectively with Entolium orbiculare by Dhondt (1971); it was recombined as Aequipecten (Aequipecten) opercularis by Cavallo and Repetto (1992); it was recombined as Aequipecten opercularis by Lucas (1979), Woodring (1982) and Marquet and Dijkstra (2000).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1758 | Ostrea opercularis Linnaeus |
| 1791 | Ostrea dubia Gmelin p. 575 figs. pl. 16, fig. 16 |
| 1814 | Ostrea dubia Brocchi p. 575 figs. pl. 16, fig. 16 |
| 1819 | Pecten opercularis Lamarck p. 172 |
| 1825 | Pecten gracilis Sowerby p. 129 figs. pl. 393, fig, 2 |
| 1850 | Pecten opercularis Wood p. 35 |
| 1850 | Pecten gracilis Wood p. 37 |
| 1850 | Pecten dubius Wood p. 38 |
| 1937 | Chlamys opercularis van Regteren Altena p. 61 |
| 1950 | Pecten (Aequipecten) opercularis Heering p. 13 |
| 1950 | Pecten (Chlamys) opercularis Heering p. 46 |
| 1957 | Chlamys (Aequipecten) opercularis Glibert p. 28 |
| 1969 | Lyropecten (Aequipecten) opercularis van Regteren Altena and et al. p. 16 |
| 1979 | Aequipecten opercularis Lucas p. 14 |
| 1982 | Aequipecten opercularis Woodring |
| 1992 | Aequipecten (Aequipecten) opercularis Cavallo and Repetto p. 186 |
| 2000 | Aequipecten opercularis Marquet and Dijkstra p. 40 |
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Aequipecten opercularis Linnaeus 1758
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Invalid names: Ostrea dubia Gmelin 1791 [synonym], Pecten gracilis Sowerby 1825 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available