WoRMS name details
Callista amirantium Melvill, 1909
538401 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:538401)
unaccepted > junior subjective synonym
Species
marine
Melvill, J. C. (1909). Report on the marine Mollusca obtained by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., among the islands of the Indian Ocean in 1905. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> ser. 2, Zoology, 13(1): 65-138, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16398974
page(s): 132, pl. 5, fig. 12. [details]
page(s): 132, pl. 5, fig. 12. [details]
Type locality contained in Amirantes
type locality contained in Amirantes [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Callista amirantium Melvill, 1909. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=538401 on 2025-05-14
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Nomenclature
original description
Melvill, J. C. (1909). Report on the marine Mollusca obtained by Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, F.R.S., among the islands of the Indian Ocean in 1905. <em>Transactions of the Linnean Society of London.</em> ser. 2, Zoology, 13(1): 65-138, pl. 5., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16398974
page(s): 132, pl. 5, fig. 12. [details]
page(s): 132, pl. 5, fig. 12. [details]
Taxonomy
source of synonymy
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]
source of synonymy Lamprell, K. L.; Kilburn, R. N. (1999). <i>Lioconcha</i> and <i>Pitar</i> species from the Mascarene and Andaman Islands with a note on <i>Pitar bucculentus</i> Römer, 1862 (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Veneridae). <em>Vita Marina.</em> 46 (1-2): 42-52., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/262759.pdf#24 [details] Available for editors
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source of synonymy Lamprell, K. L.; Kilburn, R. N. (1999). <i>Lioconcha</i> and <i>Pitar</i> species from the Mascarene and Andaman Islands with a note on <i>Pitar bucculentus</i> Römer, 1862 (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Veneridae). <em>Vita Marina.</em> 46 (1-2): 42-52., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/262759.pdf#24 [details] Available for editors
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Present Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio Inaccurate Introduced: alien Containing type locality
