original description
(of Venus fluminea Röding, 1798) Röding, P. F. (1798). Museum Boltenianum sive Catalogus cimeliorum e tribus regnis naturæ quæ olim collegerat Joa. Fried Bolten, M. D. p. d. per XL. annos proto physicus Hamburgensis. Pars secunda continens Conchylia sive Testacea univalvia, bivalvia & multivalvia. Trapp, Hamburg, viii + 199 pp., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16230659 [details]
original description
(of Venus hermaphrodita Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
original description
(of Venus paradoxa Born, 1778) Born, I. Von. (1778). Index rerum naturalium Musei Cæsarei Vindobonensis. Pars I.ma. Testacea. Verzeichniß der natürlichen Seltenheiten des k. k. Naturalien Cabinets zu Wien. Erster Theil. Schalthiere. [1-40], 1-458, [1-82]. Vindobonae [Vienna]; (Kraus)., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/43890
page(s): 53 [details]
original description
(of Venus subviridis Gmelin, 1791) Gmelin, J. F. (1791). Vermes. In: Gmelin J.F. (Ed.) Caroli a Linnaei Systema Naturae per Regna Tria Naturae, Ed. 13. Tome 1(6). G.E. Beer, Lipsiae [Leipzig]. pp. 3021-3910. <em>Systema Naturae. Linneaeus (ed.). Ed. 13.</em> 1: pars. 6., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83098#5 [details]
original description
(of Galatea radiata Lamarck, 1805) Lamarck J.B. (1805). Sur la Galathée, Nouveau genre de coquillage bivalve. <em>Annales du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 5: 430-434.
page(s): 433 [details]
basis of record
Kondakov, A. V.; Konopleva, E. S.; Adesanya, A. J.; Bespalaya, Y. V.; Braun, J. J.; Gofarov, M. Y.; Lyubas, A. A.; Tomilova, A. A.; Vikhrev, I. V.; Pokrovsky, O. S.; Bolotov, I. N. (2020). The global freshwater bivalve checklist's extension: Freshwater occurrences and phylogenetic position of <em>Galatea</em> clams from West Africa (Venerida: Donacidae). <em>Ecologica Montenegrina.</em> 35: 144-158., available online at https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2020.35.12
page(s): 152 [details] Available for editors [request]
identification resource
Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). <i>Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola</i>. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.
page(s): 672-673 [details]
Present Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
From editor or global species database
Distribution Volta, Niger, and Cross rivers in West Africa [details]