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Varicorbula U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931

Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) Specimens from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m, 29.06.2009 and 19.01.2010), actual size 3.9 and 5.0 mm. Note severe drilling on the larger specimen.
Corbula gibba (Olivi, 1792)
Specimens from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m, 29.06.2009 and 19.01.2010), actual size 3.9 and 5.0 mm. Note severe drilling on the larger specimen.

378491  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:378491)

  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)
accepted
Genus
Tellina gibba Olivi, 1792 accepted as Varicorbula gibba (Olivi, 1792) (type by original designation)
Vokesula Stenzel & Twining, 1957 † · unaccepted > junior subjective synonym

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(of Corbula (Varicorbula) U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931) Grant, U. S. & Gale, H. R. (1931). Catalogue of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California and adjacent region. <em>Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History.</em> 1: 1036 pp., 32 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2834182
page(s): 420 [details] 
MolluscaBase eds. (2021). MolluscaBase. Varicorbula Grant & Gale, 1931. Accessed at: http://molluscabase.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=378491 on 2025-07-15
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original description (of Corbula (Varicorbula) U. S. Grant & Gale, 1931) Grant, U. S. & Gale, H. R. (1931). Catalogue of the marine Pliocene and Pleistocene Mollusca of California and adjacent region. <em>Memoirs of the San Diego Society of Natural History.</em> 1: 1036 pp., 32 pls., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2834182
page(s): 420 [details] 

original description (of Vokesula Stenzel & Twining, 1957 †) Stenzel, H. B., Krause, E. K. & Twining, J. T. (1957). Pelecypoda from the type locality of the Stone City Beds (Middle Eocene). <em>Bureau of Economic Geology, The Univesity of Texas, Austin.</em> 5704: 1–237, pls. 1-22 [15 February]., available online at https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/77690
page(s): 182 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]

status source Coan, E. V.; Valentich-Scott, P. (2012). Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. [details] 

status source Mikkelsen, P. M. & Bieler, R. (2001). <i>Varicorbula</i> (Bivalvia: Corbulidae) of the Western Atlantic: Taxonomy, anatomy, life habits, and distribution. <em>The Veliger.</em> 44 (3): 271-293., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/42495990 [details] Available for editors  PDF available [request]
 
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