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A Database of Western Atlantic Marine Mollusca

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Bivalvia: Euheterodonta: Veneroidea: Meretricinae

Tivela isabelleana (d'Orbigny, 1846)


Range: 21°S to 42°S; 56°W to 40.5°W
Depth: 0 to 55 m
Maximum Reported Size: 45  mm

Synonymy

Venus isabelleana d'Orbigny, 1846
Eutivela isabelleana (d'Orbigny, 1846) 
Meretrix iheringi Dall, 1891
Meretrix perplexa Dall, 1891

Details


Venus isabelleana d'Orbigny, 1846, p. 556, Not figured
[Basis of the current name]
Type Locality: environs de Maldonado, Uruguay
Range: 21°S to 42°S; 40.5°W
Depth: 15 to 55 m
Maximum Reported Size: 45 mm
Distribution: Uruguay
Comments: d'Orbigny (1846: 556) cited pl. 83, figs. 3-4, but those figures are of Venus alvarezii (p. 708).
Combining Genera:  Eutivela

Meretrix (Eutivela) iheringi Dall, 1891a, p. 29, text-fig.
[Synonym]
Type Locality: beach near Santa Caterina, Brazil, about 26°S
Range: 26°S to 26°S; 49°W
Depth: 0 m
Maximum Reported Size: 41 mm
Distribution: Brazil: Santa Catarina
References: Dall (1891a) DdNSEWM

Meretrix (Eutivela) perplexa Dall, 1891a, p. 28, text-fig.
[Synonym]
Attributed to: Stearns
Type Locality: Off the mouth of the Rio la Plata, 10-15 fathoms
Range: 35°S to 35°S; 56°W to 57°W
Distribution: Uruguay
References: Dall (1891a) DdNSEWM; Figueiras & Sicardi (1969) s


Partial List of References

d'Orbigny, A. 1846. Mollusques Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale 5 489-728 [and 729-758?]. P. Bertrand: Paris. [True date: -- --- 1846.]
Dall, W. H. 1891. On a new subgenus of Meretrix, with descriptions of two new species from Brazil Nautilus 5 26-29. [Stated date: -- Jul 1891; true date: 10 Jul 1891.]

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