MolluscaBase name details
Myacites Schlotheim, 1820 †
1567219 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:1567219)
unaccepted > unavailable name (ICZN Art. 20 discarding names formed with suffix "-ites" to denote fossils)
Genus
- Species Myacites brevis Schauroth, 1857 † accepted as Unionites brevis (Schauroth, 1857) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Myacites fabaformis Kinahan, 1878 † accepted as Anthraconaia fabaformis (Kinahan, 1878) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Myacites fassaensis Wissmann, 1841 † accepted as Unionites fassaensis (Wissmann, 1841) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Myacites longus Schauroth, 1857 † accepted as Unionites brevis (Schauroth, 1857) † (tentative subjective synonym)
- Species Myacites striatulus F. A. Roemer, 1844 † accepted as Myofossa striatula (F. A. Roemer, 1844) † (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Myacites beanii J. Morris & Lycett, 1855 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Myacites compressus J. Morris & Lycett, 1855 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Myacites crassiusculus J. Morris & Lycett, 1855 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Myacites impressus F. A. Roemer, 1844 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Myacites tumidus J. Morris & Lycett, 1855 † (uncertain > unassessed)
- Species Myacites unioniformis J. Morris & Lycett, 1855 † (uncertain > unassessed)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
fossil only
Schlotheim, E. F. von. (1820). Die Petrefactenkunde auf ihrem jetztigen Standpunkte durch die Beschreibung seiner Sammlung versteinerter und fossiler Überreste des Thier- und Pflanzenreichs der Vorwelt. Becker, Gotha, lxii + 437 pp., available online at http://books.google.at/books/about/Die_Petrefactenkunde_auf_ihrem_jetzigen.html?id=4SQ-AAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y
page(s): 176 [details]
page(s): 176 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Myacites Schlotheim, 1820 †. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1567219 on 2025-09-11
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Schlotheim, E. F. von. (1820). Die Petrefactenkunde auf ihrem jetztigen Standpunkte durch die Beschreibung seiner Sammlung versteinerter und fossiler Überreste des Thier- und Pflanzenreichs der Vorwelt. Becker, Gotha, lxii + 437 pp., available online at http://books.google.at/books/about/Die_Petrefactenkunde_auf_ihrem_jetzigen.html?id=4SQ-AAAAcAAJ&redir_esc=y
page(s): 176 [details]
page(s): 176 [details]
From editor or global species database
Validity Invalid under Art. 20: name established for fossils, formed by adding the suffix "-ites" to the genus name Mya. Stoliczka [1871, Cretaceous fauna of southern India, 3: xvi] had designated Myacites elongatus as type species, but this was not an originally included species. [details]
