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Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792)

To MNHN Fossil collection (Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba (OLIVI, 1792); Figuré; F.R11562)
To MNHN Fossil collection (Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba (OLIVI, 1792); Figuré; F.R11562)

378492  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:378492)

  1. Biota
  2. Animalia (Kingdom)
  3. Mollusca (Phylum)
  4. Bivalvia (Class)
  5. Autobranchia (Subclass)
  6. Heteroconchia (Infraclass)
  7. Euheterodonta (Subterclass)
  8. Imparidentia (Superorder)
  9. Myida (Order)
  10. Myoidea (Superfamily)
  11. Corbulidae (Family)
  12. Varicorbula (Genus)
  13. Varicorbula gibba (Species)
accepted
Species
marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of Tellina gibba Olivi, 1792) Olivi, G. (1792). Zoologia Adriatica, ossia catalogo ragionato degli animali del golfo e della lagune di Venezia. Bassano [G. Remondini e fl.]. [ix] + 334 + xxxii pp., 9 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123881
page(s): 101 [details] OpenAccess publication
MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=378492 on 2025-07-18
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2008-12-22 11:32:03Z
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Vanhoorne, Bart
2011-11-12 18:59:31Z
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Rosenberg, Gary
2020-09-09 20:34:58Z
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Gofas, Serge
2024-12-18 14:51:40Z
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Vinarski, Maxim

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Nomenclature

original description (of Corbula nucleus Lamarck, 1818) Lamarck, [J.-B. M.] de. (1818). <i>Histoire naturelle des animaux sans vertèbres</i>. Tome cinquième, 612 pp. Paris, Deterville/Verdière. , available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/12886879
page(s): 496 [details] 

original description (of Corbula mactriformis Biondi Giunti, 1859) Biondi Giunti, S. (1859-1860). Descrizione di alcune specie malacologiche nuove che vivono nel nostro littorale. <em>Atti dell'Accademia Gioenia di Scienze Naturali di Catania, serie seconda.</em> 14: 113-124, 1 pl. [1859], 15: 303-322 [1860]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7999005
page(s): 116; pl. 1 fig. 2 [details] 

original description (of Corbula curta Locard, 1886) Locard, A. (1886). <i>Prodrome de malacologie française. Catalogue général des mollusques vivants de France. Mollusques marins</i>. Lyon: H. Georg & Paris: Baillière. x + 778 pp. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10831012
page(s): 387, 588 [details] 

original description (of Corbula haastiana F. W. Hutton, 1878) Hutton, F.W. (1878). Révision des coquilles de la Nouvelle-Zélande et des Iles Chatham. <em>Journal de Conchyliologie.</em> 26(1): 5-57., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/16015842
page(s): 44 [details] 

original description (of Corbula ovata Forbes, 1838) Forbes, E. (1838). Malacologia Monensis: a catalogue of the Mollusca inhabiting the Isle of Man and the neighbouring sea. Edinburgh: J. Carfrae and son pp. XII + 63 + 3 pl., available online at http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k99078x
page(s): 53-54 [details] 

original description (of Corbula rosea T. Brown, 1844) Brown T. (1844). <i>Illustrations of the Recent Conchology of Great Britain and Ireland, with the description and localities of all the species, marine, land, and fresh water</i>. Ed. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. <em>Drawn and Coloured from Nature. Second Edition, Greatly Enlarged.</em> , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/10921172 [details] 

original description (of Corbula striata J. Fleming, 1828) Fleming, J. (1828). A history of British animals, exhibiting the descriptive characters and systematical arrangement of the genera and species of quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes, Mollusca, and Radiata of the United Kingdom; including the indigenous, extirpated, and extinct kinds, together with periodical and occasional visitants. <em>Edinburgh, Bell & Bradfute / London, James Duncan.</em> Pp. i-xxii, 1-565. corrigenda., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/18569
page(s): 425 [details] 

original description (of Mya inaequivalvis Montagu, 1803) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp.; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Tellina gibba Olivi, 1792) Olivi, G. (1792). Zoologia Adriatica, ossia catalogo ragionato degli animali del golfo e della lagune di Venezia. Bassano [G. Remondini e fl.]. [ix] + 334 + xxxii pp., 9 pls., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/123881
page(s): 101 [details] OpenAccess publication

original description (of Tellina naticuta Brusina, 1870) Brusina, S. (1870). Ipsa Chiereghinii Conchylia, ovvero contribuzione pella Malacologia Adriatica desunta dal manoscritto descrizione de' Crostacei, de' Testacei, e de' Pesci che abitano le Lagune e Golfo Veneto, rappresentati in figure, a chiaro-scuro ed a colori dall Abate S. Chiereghini ... illustrata da S. Brusina. <em>Pisa, Biblioteca Malacologica.</em> 280 pp., available online at https://archive.org/stream/ipsachiereghini00chiegoog [details] 

original description (of Tellina olimpica O. G. Costa, 1830) Costa, O. G. (1830 ["1829"]). Catalogo sistematico e ragionato de' testacei delle Due Sicilie. Tipografia della Minerva, Napoli, pp. 1-8, i-cxxxii, pl. 1-3., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/13047696
page(s): 27 [details] 

original description (of Corbula gibba var. albida Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896) Bucquoy, E.; Dautzenberg, P.; Dollfus, G. (1887-1898). Les mollusques marins du Roussillon. Tome II. Pélécypodes. Paris, J.B. Baillière & fils; 884 p., 99 pl. [pp. 1-24, pl. 1-6, 1887; pp. 25-60, pl. 7-11, 1888; pp. 61-112, pl. 12-21, 1889; pp. 113-172, pl. 22-29, 1890; pp. 173-220, pl. 30-37, 1891; pp. 221-320, pl. 38-51, 1892; pp. 321-450, pl. 52-67, 1893; pp. 453-540, pl. 68-70, 1895; pp. 541-620, pl. 79-88, 1896; pp. 621-884, pl. 89-99, 1898]., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/58552309 [details] 

original description (of Corbula gibba var. curta Sacco, 1901 †) Sacco, F. (1901). I molluschi dei terreni terziarii del Piemonte e della Liguria. Parte XXIX. (Donacidae, Psammobiidae, Solenidae, Mesodesmidae, Mactridae, Cardiidae, Myidae, Corbulidae, Glycymeridae, Gastrochaenidae, Pholadidae, Teredinidae, Cryptodontidae, Ungulinidae (Diplodontidae), Lucinidae, Tellinidae, Scrobiculariidae, Cuspidariidae, Solenomyidae, Pandoridae, Verticordiidae, Lyonsiidae, Ceromyidae, Arcomyidae, Anatinidae, Poromyidae, Pholadomyidae e Clavagellidae). Carlo Clausen, Torino, 216 pp., 29 pl., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/47316
page(s): 35, pl. 9, fig. 5-7 [details] 

original description (of Corbula gibba var. pulchra Zhizhchenko, 1936 †) Zhizhchenko, B. (1936). Чокракские моллюски [= Chokrakian molluscs]. <em>Paleontologija SSSR.</em> 10(3): 1-323, 26 pls.
page(s): 135, pl. 15, fig. 16-21 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

original description (of Corbula proterva Zhizhchenko, 1934 †) Zhizhchenko, B. (1934). Miotsenovyye mollyuski Vostochnogo Predkavkaz'ya. <em>Trudy Neftyanogo geologo-razvedochnogo instituta, seriya A.</em> 38(1): 1-92, 9 pls.
page(s): 50, pl. 6, fig. 8-9 [details] 

Other

additional source Healy J.M. & Lamprell K.L. (1996). The Atlantic-Mediterranean bivalve, <i>Corbula gibba</i> (Olivi) (Corbulidae: Myoidea) in Port Philip Bay, Victoria. <i>Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 39(2)</i>: 315-318 [details] 

additional source Yonge, C. M. (1946). On the habits and adaptations of <i>Aloidis (Corbula) gibba</i>. <em>Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom.</em> 27: 585-596., available online at http://plymsea.ac.uk/id/eprint/1241/1/On_the_habits_and_adaptations_of_Aloidis_%28Corbula%29_Gibba.pdf [details] 

additional source Hrs-Brenko M. (2006). The basket shell, <i>Corbula gibba</i> Olivi, 1792 (Bivalve Mollusks) as a species resistant to environmental disturbances: A review. <em>Acta Adriatica: International journal of Marine Sciences.</em> 47(1): 49-64., available online at https://hrcak.srce.hr/8462 [details] 

 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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Danish hampefrømusling [from synonym]  [details]
Dutch korfschelp [from synonym]  [details]
English European clamcommon corbula [from synonym]common basket clam [from synonym]basket shell [from synonym]  [details]
German Korbmuschel [from synonym]Körbchenmuschel [from synonym]  [details]
Norwegian Bokmål kurvskjell [from synonym]  [details]
Norwegian Nynorsk korgskjel [from synonym]  [details]
BIOTIC (from synonym Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792))
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland (from synonym Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792))
Marine Life Information Network - UK (from synonym Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792))
National Introduced Marine Pest Information System (NIMPIS) 
To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes) 
To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) (from synonym Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (116 publications) (from synonym Corbula striata J. Fleming, 1828)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (298 publications) (from synonym Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792))
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (44 publications) (from synonym Tellina gibba Olivi, 1792)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (53 publications) (from synonym Corbula rosea T. Brown, 1844)
To Dyntaxa (from synonym Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792))
To European Nucleotide Archive, ENA (Varicorbula gibba) 
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 9 proteins) 
To GenBank (27 nucleotides; 9 proteins) (from synonym Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792))
To Malacopics (Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) France, Bretagne, Morbihan, Presqu'ile de Quibéron, ... 
To Malacopics (Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) Italy, Lazio, Viterbo, Secca delle Murelle, at 28 m ... 
To Malacopics (Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) Mauritania, off Mauritania, Passe du Levrier, E of C... 
To Malacopics (Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) Netherlands, Zuid-Holland, Den Haag, Scheveningen, o... 
To Malacopics (Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) Sweden, Västra Götaland, Gullmarsfjorden, Gåsklåvan,... 
To Malacopics (Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792)) 
To Malacopics (Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792)) 
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales (from synonym Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792))
To MNHN Fossil collection (Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba (OLIVI, 1792); Figuré; F.R11562) (from synonym Corbula (Varicorbula) gibba (Olivi, 1792))
To MNHN Fossil collection (Corbula gibba (OLIVI, 1792); Figuré; F.A50684) (from synonym Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792))
To MNHN Fossil collection (Varicorbula gibba (OLIVI, 1792); Figuré; F.R07655) 
To PESI (from synonym Corbula nucleus Lamarck, 1818)
To PESI (from synonym Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792))
To PESI (from synonym Corbula mactriformis Biondi Giunti, 1859)
To PESI (from synonym Corbula curta Locard, 1886)
To PESI (from synonym Corbula ovata Forbes, 1838)
To PESI (from synonym Corbula rosea T. Brown, 1844)
To PESI (from synonym Mya inaequivalvis Montagu, 1803)
To PESI (from synonym Tellina gibba Olivi, 1792)
To PESI (from synonym Tellina naticuta Brusina, 1870)
To PESI (from synonym Tellina olimpica O. G. Costa, 1830)
To PESI (from synonym Corbula gibba var. albida Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896)
To PESI (from synonym Corbula gibba var. radiata Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896)
To PESI (from synonym Corbula gibba var. fusca Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896)
To PESI (from synonym Corbula gibba var. maxima Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1896)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
To ITIS
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