WoRMS taxon details
Cyrtopleura crucigera (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834)
506990 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506990)
accepted
Species
Cyrtopleura exilis Tryon, 1870 · unaccepted
Pholas crucifera auct. · unaccepted (misspelling)
Pholas cruciger G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 · unaccepted (original combination)
marine
(of Pholas cruciger G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1834). [Characters of new species of shells contained in the collection formed by Mr. Cuming, chiefly on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1834: 68–72. [26 September]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859664
page(s): 69 [details]
page(s): 69 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Cyrtopleura crucigera (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506990 on 2025-05-10
The webpage text is licensed under a Creative Commons
Attribution 4.0 License
Nomenclature
original description
(of Cyrtopleura exilis Tryon, 1870) Tryon, G. W. (1870). Descriptions of new species of marine bivalve Mollusca in the collection of the Academy of Natural Sciences.- No. 2. <em>American Journal of Conchology.</em> 5(3): 170-172, pl. 1 [3 Feb. 1870]; 6(1): 23-24, pl. 1. [7 July 1870]., available online at https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15979010 [details]
original description (of Pholas cruciger G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1834). [Characters of new species of shells contained in the collection formed by Mr. Cuming, chiefly on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1834: 68–72. [26 September]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859664
page(s): 69 [details]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
original description (of Pholas cruciger G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) Sowerby, G. B. I. (1834). [Characters of new species of shells contained in the collection formed by Mr. Cuming, chiefly on the western coast of South America and among the islands of the South Pacific Ocean]. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> 1834: 68–72. [26 September]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12859664
page(s): 69 [details]
basis of record Huber, M. (2010). <i>Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS) [details]
Taxonomy
redescription
Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details]
Other
context source (PeRMS)
Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]
To ANSP Malacology Collection (syntypes of Cyrtopleura exilis. Tryon, 1870. American Journal of Conchology 5 (3): 170 - catalog no. 51040) (from synonym Cyrtopleura exilis Tryon, 1870)
From editor or global species database
Hosted externally, from synonym
