Higher Classification: > Kingdom Animalia > Subkingdom Eumetazoa > Phylum Mollusca > Class Bivalvia > Subclass Autobranchia > Infraclass Heteroconchia > Subterclass Euheterodonta > Superorder Imparidentia > Order Venerida > Superfamily Veneroidea > Family Veneridae > Subfamily Venerinae > Genus Timoclea

Timoclea ovata (Pennant, 1777)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Timoclea*	T. Brown, 1827	accepted genus name

Species group names

*Venus alope*	Brusina, 1870	synonym; nom. nud.
*Venus myrrha*	Brusina, 1870	synonym; nom. nud.
*Venus ovata*	Pennant, 1777	synonym
*Venus ovata var. lutea*	Jeffreys, 1864	synonym
*Venus ovata var. marmorata*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893	synonym
*Venus ovata var. paucicostata*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893	synonym
*Venus ovata var. transversa*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893	synonym
*Venus ovata var. trigona*	Jeffreys, 1864	synonym
*Venus pectinula*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Danish: nettegnet venusmusling sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Dutch: ovale venusschelp sources: Hayward, P.; Nelson-Smith, A.; Shields, C. (1999). Gids van kust en strand: flora en fauna [Coast and beach guide: flora and fauna]. Tirion: Baarn, Netherlands. ISBN 90-5210-327-5. 352, ill. pp.

English: oval venus sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

German: Ovale Venusmuschel sources: Cole, T. C. H. (2017). Wörterbuch der Wirbellosen / Dictionary of Invertebrates. Latein-Deutsch-English. 2017. Springer Spektrum: Berlin. ISBN 978-3-662-52869-3. XII, 574 pp.

Norwegian Bokmål: lammeskjell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Norwegian Nynorsk: lammeskjel sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Swedish: radiärstrimmig venusmussla

Literature

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	Nevesskaja, L.A.; Goncharova, I.A.; Paramonova, N.P.; Popov, S.V.; Babak, E.V.; Bagdasarjan, K.G.; Voronina, A.A. (1993). Opredelitel' miotsenovykh dvustvorchatykh mollyuskov yugo-zapadnoy Yevrazii. Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta, 247: 1-412
additional source	Huber, M. (2010). Compendium of bivalves. A full-color guide to 3,300 of the world's marine bivalves. A status on Bivalvia after 250 years of research. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM.
identification resource	Cosel, R. von; Gofas, S. (2019). Marine bivalves of tropical West Africa: from Rio de Oro to southern Angola. Publications Scientifiques du Muséum, Paris, IRD Éditions, Marseille (Faune et Flore tropicales, volume 48): 1-1104.

Genbank

External Links

Marine Life Information Network - UK

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Timoclea ovata (Pennant, 1777). 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:141929