MUSSELpdb
Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater mussels
by Taxonomy
Species & Genus Richness of
freshwater bivalves
by Family
Geography
Species Richness & Endemism of
freshwater mussels
by Geography
Data last updated
Thu 19 March 2026
Bivalvia | Venerida | Arcticoidea | Arcticidae | Arctica
species Arctica islandica (Linnaeus, 1767): synonymy
Synonymy
Venus islandica Linnaeus, 1767
Lister, 1685. Conch.: pl. 272, fig. 108.
Linnaeus, 1767. Syst. Nat. 1(2): 1131.
Martini & Chemnitz, 1782. Conchyl. Cab. 6: pl. 32, figs. 341-342.
Gmelin, 1791. Syst. Nat. 1(6): 3271.
Arctica islandica — Giribet & Wheeler (2002), Bieler et al. (2014), Combosch et al. (2017), Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)
Taxonomic History (since 1900)
Arctica islandica — Giribet & Wheeler (2002), Bieler et al. (2014), Combosch et al. (2017), Wu et al. (2023), Huang et al. (2025)
