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Taxonomy
Venus maculata was named by Linnaeus (1758) [DISTRIBUTION: Pleistocene-Recent; Western Atlantic.]. It is extant.
It was recombined as Macrocallista (Chionella) maculata by Vaughn (1921) and Anderson (1929); it was recombined as Macrocallista (Paradione) maculata by Gardner (1926) and Woodring (1982); it was recombined as Callista (Callista) maculata by Palmer (1926); it was recombined as Callista maculata by Oinomikado (1939); it was recombined as Macrocallista (Macrocallista) maculata by Olsson and Harbison (1953); it was recombined as Macrocallista maculata by Brown and Pilsbry (1911), Olsson (1922) and Mikkelsen and Bieler (2008).
It was recombined as Macrocallista (Chionella) maculata by Vaughn (1921) and Anderson (1929); it was recombined as Macrocallista (Paradione) maculata by Gardner (1926) and Woodring (1982); it was recombined as Callista (Callista) maculata by Palmer (1926); it was recombined as Callista maculata by Oinomikado (1939); it was recombined as Macrocallista (Macrocallista) maculata by Olsson and Harbison (1953); it was recombined as Macrocallista maculata by Brown and Pilsbry (1911), Olsson (1922) and Mikkelsen and Bieler (2008).
Sister species lacking formal opinion data
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
Year | Name and author |
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1758 | Venus maculata Linnaeus p. 686 |
1855 | Cytherea (Meretrix) dariena Conrad p. 72 figs. pl. 45, fig. 21 |
1911 | Macrocallista maculata Brown and Pilsbry p. 370 |
1921 | Macrocallista (Chionella) maculata Vaughn |
1922 | Macrocallista maculata Olsson p. 234 |
1926 | Macrocallista (Paradione) maculata Gardner p. 160 |
1926 | Callista (Callista) maculata Palmer pp. 77, 78 |
1929 | Macrocallista (Chionella) maculata Anderson p. 170 |
1939 | Callista maculata Oinomikado p. 629 |
1953 | Macrocallista (Macrocallista) maculata Olsson and Harbison p. 109 |
1982 | Macrocallista (Paradione) maculata Woodring p. 689 |
2008 | Macrocallista maculata Mikkelsen and Bieler |
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Macrocallista maculata Linnaeus 1758
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Invalid names: Cytherea (Meretrix) dariena Conrad 1855 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available