WoRMS name details
Meroe Schumacher, 1817
526372 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:526372)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Genus
Venus meroë Linnaeus, 1758 accepted as Sunetta meroe (Linnaeus, 1758) (type by monotypy)
Meroë Schumacher, 1817 · unaccepted (incorrect original spelling)
- Species Meroe chilkaensis Preston, 1914 accepted as Sunetta meroe (Linnaeus, 1758) (unaccepted > superseded combination)
- Species Meroe hians Reeve, 1864 accepted as Sunetta solanderii (J. E. Gray, 1825)
- Species Meroe magnifica Reeve, 1864 accepted as Sunetta menstrualis (Menke, 1843)
- Species Meroe menstrualis sensu Reeve, 1864 accepted as Sunetta sunettina (Jousseaume, 1891)
- Species Meroe ovalis G. B. Sowerby III, 1892 accepted as Sunetta bruggeni Fischer-Piette, 1974 (invalid: junior secondary homonym of Sunetta ovalis K. Martin, 1879)
- Species Meroe picta Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Sunetta meroe (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Meroe roetersiana Crosse, 1874 accepted as Sunetta donacina (Gmelin, 1791)
- Species Meroe satparaensis Preston, 1914 accepted as Sunetta scripta (Linnaeus, 1758)
- Species Meroe solandri [sic] accepted as Sunetta solanderii (J. E. Gray, 1825) (misspelling by Gray, 1838)
- Species Meroe subquadrata G. B. Sowerby II, 1851 accepted as Sunetta subquadrata (G. B. Sowerby II, 1851)
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 49, 149 [details]
(of Meroë Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 [details]
page(s): 49, 149 [details]
(of Meroë Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Meroe Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=526372 on 2025-05-02
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Nomenclature
original description
Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329
page(s): 49, 149 [details]
original description (of Meroë Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 [details]
page(s): 49, 149 [details]
original description (of Meroë Schumacher, 1817) Schumacher, C. F. (1817). Essai d'un nouveau système des habitations des vers testacés. <em>Schultz, Copenghagen.</em> iv + 288 pp., 22 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/81329 [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
Korobkov, I.A. (1954). Справочник и методическое руководство по третичным моллюскам: пластинчатожаберные [= A handbook and methodical guide to Tertiary molluscs: Lamellibranchiata]. Gosudarstvennoye nauchno-tekhnicheskoye izdatel'stvo neftyanoy i gorno-toplivnoy literatury, Leningrad, 444 pp., available online at https://www.geokniga.org/books/6177
page(s): 156 [details]
page(s): 156 [details]
Unreviewed
Spelling Original spelling Meroë. [details]
