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Pitar
Bivalvia - Cardiida - Veneridae
Taxonomy
Pitar was named by Römer (1857) [Sepkoski's age data: T Than R Sepkoski's reference number: 1112]. It is extant. Its type is Cytherea tumens.
It was reranked as Cytherea (Pitar) by Vredenburg (1928); it was reranked as Meretrix (Pitar) by Skwarko (1994).
It was assigned to Cytherea by Vredenburg (1928); to Meretrix by Skwarko (1994); to Pitarinae by Stenzel et al. (1957), da Silva Forti (1969), Moore (1976), Vokes (1980), Woodring (1982), Perrilliat (1992) and Pacaud and Le Renard (1995); to Veneridae by Mukerjee (1939), Rivera (1957), Marasti (1973), Wozny (1977), Zinsmeister (1983), Ward and Blackwelder (1987), Lamprell and Whitehead (1992) and Todd (2001); and to Veneroida by Sepkoski (2002).
It was reranked as Cytherea (Pitar) by Vredenburg (1928); it was reranked as Meretrix (Pitar) by Skwarko (1994).
It was assigned to Cytherea by Vredenburg (1928); to Meretrix by Skwarko (1994); to Pitarinae by Stenzel et al. (1957), da Silva Forti (1969), Moore (1976), Vokes (1980), Woodring (1982), Perrilliat (1992) and Pacaud and Le Renard (1995); to Veneridae by Mukerjee (1939), Rivera (1957), Marasti (1973), Wozny (1977), Zinsmeister (1983), Ward and Blackwelder (1987), Lamprell and Whitehead (1992) and Todd (2001); and to Veneroida by Sepkoski (2002).
Species
Cytherea (Caryatis) pratti, Meretrix (Pitar) dalikiensis, P. (Calpitaria), P. (Chionella), P. (Cordiopsis), P. (Costellipitar), P. (Hyphantosoma), P. (Lamelliconcha), P. (Nanopitar), P. (Paradione), P. (Pitar), P. (Pitar) nuttali, P. (Pitarenus), P. (Pitarina), P. addicotti, P. albidus, P. baylii, P. cedroensis, P. colchaguana, P. cordatus, P. mancorensis, P. morrhuanus (syn. Cytherea sayana), P. murphyi, P. parisiensis, P. petropolitanus, P. porrecta, P. rostratus, P. salanga, P. sciaena, P. securiformis, P. simpsoni, P. sorachiensis, P. subarestus, P. transversus
Species lacking formal opinion data
Meretrix elliptica, P. aldrichi, P. avenalensis, P. avenalensis, P. barrowsi, P. california, P. californiana, P. campi, P. cosanguineus, P. ewekoroensis, P. kavranensis, P. matheroni, P. matsumotoi, P. megacostata, P. nuttalliopsis, P. obliquata, P. ozakii, P. protena, P. quadratus, P. ripleyanus, P. sciena, P. sculpturata, P. semeliformis, P. soledadensis, P. stantoni, P. subnasuta, P. subpellucidum, P. swedani, P. tejonensis, P. thompsoni, P. turneri, P. turneri, P. uvasana, P. uvasana, P. uvasanus, P. uvasanus
Synonyms
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Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
|---|---|
| 1857 | Pitar Römer p. 15 |
| 1862 | Caryatis Roemer |
| 1928 | Cytherea (Caryatis) Vredenburg p. 449 |
| 1928 | Cytherea (Pitar) Vredenburg p. 451 |
| 1939 | Pitar Mukerjee p. 21 |
| 1957 | Pitar Rivera p. 196 |
| 1957 | Pitar Stenzel et al. p. 140 |
| 1969 | Pitar da Silva Forti p. 83 |
| 1973 | Pitar Marasti p. 110 |
| 1976 | Pitar Moore p. 47 |
| 1977 | Pitar Wozny p. 106 |
| 1980 | Pitar Vokes p. 172 |
| 1982 | Pitar Woodring p. 684 |
| 1983 | Pitar Zinsmeister p. 1288 |
| 1987 | Pitar Ward and Blackwelder p. 130 |
| 1992 | Pitar Lamprell and Whitehead p. 136 |
| 1992 | Pitar Perrilliat p. 15 |
| 1994 | Meretrix (Pitar) Skwarko p. g20 |
| 1995 | Pitar Pacaud and Le Renard p. 183 |
| 2001 | Pitar Todd |
| 2002 | Pitar Sepkoski, Jr. |
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available