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 Tapetinae > Genus Ruditapes

Ruditapes decussatus (Linnaeus, 1758)

Rank: Species
Taxon Status: accepted

Original genus

Venus Linnaeus, 1758

Relationships towards this taxon

Genus group names

*Ruditapes*	Chiamenti, 1900	accepted genus name
*Tapes (Ruditapes)*	Chiamenti, 1900	synonym
*Venerupis (Ruditapes)*	Chiamenti, 1900	synonym

Species group names

*Cuneus reticulatus*	da Costa, 1778	synonym
*Tapes (Ruditapes) decussatus*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Tapes decussata*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Tapes decussatus*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Tapes decussatus var. albida*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893	synonym
*Tapes decussatus var. intermedia*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893	synonym
*Tapes decussatus var. major*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893	synonym
*Tapes decussatus var. quadrangula*	Jeffreys, 1864	synonym
*Tapes decussatus var. radiata*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893	synonym
*Tapes decussatus var. texta*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893	synonym
*Tapes decussatus var. varians*	Bucquoy, Dautzenberg & Dollfus, 1893	synonym
*Tapes extensus*	Locard, 1886	synonym
*Venerupis decussata*	(Linnaeus, 1758)	synonym
*Venus florida*	Poli, 1795	synonym
*Venus fusca*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Venus obscura*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Venus truncata*	Lamarck, 1818	synonym
*Venus variegata*	Gmelin, 1791	synonym
*Venus vesta*	Brusina, 1870	synonym

Vernaculars (+) (-)

Dutch: geruite tapijtschelp; tapijtschelp sources: VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.;Davidson, A. (2001). North Atlantic fish cookbook [Noord-Atlantisch viskookboek]. Scepter: Bussum, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-72653-14-9. 556 pp.

English: chequered carpet shell; chequered carpetclam; chequered venus; grooved carpet shell sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points;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.;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

French: palaroude; palourde croisée d'Europe sources: Davidson, A. (2001). North Atlantic fish cookbook [Noord-Atlantisch viskookboek]. Scepter: Bussum, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-72653-14-9. 556 pp.;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.

German: Gekreuzte Teppichmuschel; Kreuzmuster-Teppichmuschel; Teppichmuschel 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.;VLIZ. (2016). Wetenschappelijke en handelsbenamingen voor visserij- en aquacultuurproducten op de Belgische markt. VLIZ Beleidsinformerende Nota's, BIN 2016_001. Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee: Oostende. 28 + Annex. pp.;Davidson, A. (2001). North Atlantic fish cookbook [Noord-Atlantisch viskookboek]. Scepter: Bussum, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-72653-14-9. 556 pp.

Greek: Αχιβάδα; Μαρμαροαχιβάδα sources: PESI (A Pan-European Species directories Infrastructure) focal points

Portuguese: ameijoa sources: Davidson, A. (2001). North Atlantic fish cookbook [Noord-Atlantisch viskookboek]. Scepter: Bussum, The Netherlands. ISBN 90-72653-14-9. 556 pp.

Spanish, Castillian: almeja fina

Literature

basis of record	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	Zamouri-Langar, N.; Chouba, L.; Ajjabi Chebil, L.; Mrabet, R.; El Abed, A. (2011). Les coquillages bivalves des côtes tunisiennes. Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer: Salammbô. ISBN 978-9938-9512-0-2. 128 pp.
source of synonymy	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

Citation

MolluscaBase eds. (2025). MolluscaBase. Ruditapes decussatus (Linnaeus, 1758). 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:231749