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Pycnodonta vesicularis

Bivalvia - Ostreida - Gryphaeidae

Taxonomy
Ostrea vesicularis was named by Lamarck (1806) [m. kosnik taxon no: 6360]. It is a 3D body fossil.

It was recombined as Gryphaea vesicularis by Böhm (1891) and Stephenson (1923); it was recombined as Pycnodonta vesicularis by Dartevelle and Freneix (1957); it was recombined as Pycnodonte vesicularis by Barber (1958), Quarto di Palo (1970), Freneix and Odin (2001) and El Qot (2006); it was recombined as Pycnodonte vesiculare by Dhondt and Jagt (1987) and Taylor (1988); it was recombined as Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare by Elder (1996); it was recombined as Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis by Gruendel (1982), Gliozzi and Malatesta (1983), Casadio (1998), Brezina et al. (2014), Brezina et al. (2017) and Mendir et al. (2021).

Sister species lacking formal opinion data

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1806Ostrea vesicularis Lamarck p. 160
1827Ostrea hippopodium Nilsson
1835Pycnodonta radiata Fischer de Waldheim
1888Ostrea szajnochai Choffat p. 92 figs. Pl 5, fig 18
1891Gryphaea vesicularis Böhm p. 91 figs. Pl 4, figs 3,a
1891Ostrea hippopodium Böhm p. 92 figs. Pl 4, figs 12,a
1903Gryphaea proboscidea Archiac
1923Gryphaea vesicularis Stephenson p. 161
1957Pycnodonta vesicularis Dartevelle and Freneix p. 119
1957Pycnodonta vesicularis hippopodium Dartevelle and Freneix p. 121 figs. Pl 22, figs 4-11
1958Pycnodonte vesicularis Barber p. 22 figs. Pl 8, figs 10a,b
1970Pycnodonte vesicularis Quarto di Palo p. 103 figs. Pl. 14, Fig. 1-4
1982Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Gruendel
1983Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Gliozzi and Malatesta p. 89 figs. Pl 2, figs 1-4
1987Pycnodonte vesiculare Dhondt and Jagt
1988Pycnodonte vesiculare Taylor
1996Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesiculare Elder p. 256
1998Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Casadio p. 451
2001Pycnodonte vesicularis Freneix and Odin p. 468 figs. Pl 1, figs 1,4
2006Pycnodonte vesicularis El Qot p. 36
2014Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Brezina et al.
2017Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Brezina et al. p. 113
2021Pycnodonte (Phygraea) vesicularis Mendir et al. p. 12 figs. 5N1-2

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Spiralia
superphylumLophotrochozoa
phylumMollusca
classBivalvia
Eubivalvia
subclassAutobranchia(Groblen 1894)
infraclassPteriomorphia(Beurlen 1944)
RankNameAuthor
OstreomorphiFerussac 1822
OstreioniFerussac 1822
OstreataFerussac 1822
superorderOstreiformiiFerussac 1822
orderOstreida(Fërussac 1822)
suborderOstreidina(Ferussac 1822)
superfamilyOstreoidea(Rafinesque 1815)
familyGryphaeidaeVialov 1936
subfamilyPycnodonteinaeStenzel 1959
genusPycnodonta(Fischer von Waldheim 1835)
speciesvesicularis(Lamarck 1806)

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Pycnodonta vesicularis Lamarck 1806
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Invalid names: Ostrea szajnochai Choffat 1888 [synonym]
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available