MolluscaBase name details
Macrochisma Gray, 1835
732496 (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:732496)
unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect subsequent spelling
Genus
- Species Macrochisma angustata A. Adams, 1851 accepted as Macroschisma angustatum A. Adams, 1851 (incorrect grammatical agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Macrochisma bakiei [sic] accepted as Macroschisma baikiei (A. Adams, 1855) (misspelling of specific epithet)
- Species Macrochisma compressa A. Adams, 1851 accepted as Macroschisma compressum A. Adams, 1851 (genus misspelt and incorrect gender ending)
- Species Macrochisma cuspidata A. Adams, 1851 accepted as Macroschisma cuspidatum A. Adams, 1851 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling)
- Species Macrochisma dilatata A. Adams, 1851 accepted as Macroschisma dilatatum A. Adams, 1851 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling)
- Species Macrochisma maxima A. Adams, 1851 accepted as Macroschisma maximum A. Adams, 1851 (basionym; incorrect gender ending)
- Species Macrochisma megatrema A. Adams, 1851 accepted as Macroschisma megatrema A. Adams, 1851 (unaccepted > misspelling - incorrect original spelling)
- Species Macrochisma producta A. Adams, 1851 accepted as Macroschisma productum A. Adams, 1851 (incorrect gender agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Macrochisma sinensis A. Adams, 1855 accepted as Macroschisma sinense A. Adams, 1855 (incorrect spelling of genus name; wrong gender agreement of specific epithet)
- Species Macrochisma bakiei G. B. Sowerby II, 1862 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, use in recent liteature currently undocumented)
- Species Macrochisma novaecaledoniae G. B. Sowerby II, 1862 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, use in recent liteature currently undocumented)
- Species Macrochisma tasmaniae G. B. Sowerby II, 1862 (uncertain > taxon inquirendum, use in recent liteature currently undocumented)
Sowerby, G. B. II. (1862). Monograph of the genus <i>Macrochisma</i>. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 3 (21): 205–206, pls 244. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15940632 [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Macrochisma Gray, 1835. Accessed at: https://www.molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=732496 on 2025-09-11
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Sowerby, G. B. II. (1862). Monograph of the genus <i>Macrochisma</i>. In G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 3 (21): 205–206, pls 244. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/15940632 [details]
basis of record Adams, A. (1851). A monograph of <i>Macrochisma</i>, a genus of gasteropodous Mollusca belonging to the family Fissurellidae. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1850) 18: 202–203., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59278724 [details]
basis of record Adams, A. (1851). A monograph of <i>Macrochisma</i>, a genus of gasteropodous Mollusca belonging to the family Fissurellidae. <em>Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London.</em> (1850) 18: 202–203., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/59278724 [details]
