Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Myida > Superfamily Myoidea > Family Corbulidae > Subfamily Erodoninae

Lentidium De Cristofori & Jan, 1832

Rank: Genus
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Corbulomya*	Nyst, 1845	synonym

Children

Lentidium mediterraneum (O. G. Costa, 1830)

Literature

original description	De Cristofori, G.; Jan, G. (1832). Catalogus in IV sectiones divisus rerum naturalium in Museo exstantium Josephi de Cristofori et Georgii Jan plurium acad. scient. et societ. Nat. cur. sodalium complectens adumbatrionem oryctognosiae et geognosiae atque prodromus Faunae et Florae Italiae superioris. Sectio II. Conchyliologia. Pars 1a. Conspectus methodicus molluscorum. Fasc. 1us. Testacea terrestria et fluviatilia. [Includes: Dispositio methodica generum quibus Mollusca terrestria et fluviatilia in collectione nostra addicuntur, 2 pp.; Conchylia terrestria et fluviatilia in collectione nostra exstantia cum aliis ea deficientibus commutanda atque argento aequiparanda, 8 pp.; Mantissa in secundam partem catalogi testaceorum exstantium in collectione quam possident De-Cristofori et Jan, exhibens Characteres essentiales specierum Molluscorum terrestrium et fluviatilium ab eis enunciatarum in prima parte ejusdem Catalogi, 4 pp.; Excerptum e primo nostro programmate (Calendis Novembris, 1831), p. 1.; Excerptum e secundo nostro programmate (12° Calendas Aprilis 1832), 1 p.; Excerptum e secundo nostro programmate (21° Martii 1832). Sectio Secunda. Conchyliologia, 2 pp; Conchylia fossilia ex formatione telluris tertiaria in collectione nostra exstantia, 16 pp. Milano (Pirotta).
basis of record	Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca. in: Costello, M.J. et al. (eds), European Register of Marine Species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Patrimoines Naturels. 50: 180-213.
additional source	Hallan, A.; Colgan, D. J.; Anderson, L. C.; García, A.; Chivas, A. R. (2013). A single origin for the limnetic-euryhaline taxa in the Corbulidae (Bivalvia). Zoologica Scripta. 42(3): 278-287.

Genbank

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Lentidium De Cristofori & Jan, 1832. Via: Costello, M.J.; Bouchet, P.; Boxshall, G.; Arvantidis, C.; Appeltans, W. (2011) European Register of Marine Species, Accessed through PESI at http://www.eu-nomen.eu/portal/taxon.php?GUID=urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137842