WoRMS name details
Lima fragilis (Gmelin, 1791)
216644 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216644)
unaccepted
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marine
(of Ostrea fragilis 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]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lima fragilis (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216644 on 2025-04-25
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Nomenclature
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(of Ostrea fragilis 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]
basis of record Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. <em>Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales.</em> 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
basis of record Dautzenberg P. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises. [Contribution to the study of the fauna of Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Fauna of the French colonies.]. <em>Société d'Editions Géographiques, Maritimes et Coloniales.</em> 3(4): 321-636, pls 4-7. Paris. (look up in IMIS) [details]
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Lamarck [J.B.P.A. de]. (1806-1807). Suite des mémoires sur les fossiles des environs de Paris. <em>Annales du Muséum d'Histoire Naturelle.</em> 8: pp. 77-79, pl. 35-37 (=pl. VIII-X); pp. 156-166; 347-355, pl. 59-62 (=pl. XI-XIV) [1806]; pp. 461-469 [January 1807]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29407826
page(s): 463; note: presented as new name based on Chemnitz, 1784, p. 349, pl. 68 fig. 650, but the first nomenclatural act making the name available was that of Glelin, 1791 (as Ostrea fragilis) [details]
page(s): 463; note: presented as new name based on Chemnitz, 1784, p. 349, pl. 68 fig. 650, but the first nomenclatural act making the name





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Remark subgenus Mantellum (Dautzenberg, 1923) [details]