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Thyasira flexuosa (Montagu, 1803)

141662  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141662)

accepted
Species
Axinus flexuosus (Montagu, 1803) · unaccepted (Subsequent combination)
marine, fresh, terrestrial
recent + fossil
(of ) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): vol. 1, pp. 72-73 [details]   
Note Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall  
From other sources
Type locality Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall [details]
Distribution Greenland to off North Carolina; Bering Sea to off San Diego, California  
Distribution Greenland to off North Carolina; Bering Sea to off San Diego, California [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Thyasira flexuosa (Montagu, 1803). Accessed through: Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024) World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS) at: https://marinespecies.org/Deepsea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141662 on 2024-04-16
Glover, A.G.; Higgs, N.; Horton, T. (2024). World Register of Deep-Sea species (WoRDSS). Thyasira flexuosa (Montagu, 1803). Accessed at: https://www.marinespecies.org/DeepSea/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141662 on 2024-04-16
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z
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original description  (of ) Montagu, G. (1803). Testacea Britannica or natural history of British shells, marine, land, and fresh-water, including the most minute: Systematically arranged and embellished with figures. J. White, London, Vol. 1, xxxvii + 291 pp;; Vol. 2, pp. 293–606, pl. 1-16., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/78694
page(s): vol. 1, pp. 72-73 [details]   

context source (Deepsea) Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]   

context source (PeRMS) Paredes, C.; Cardoso, F.; Santamaría, J.; Esplana, J.; Llaja, L. (2016). Lista anotada de los bivalvos marinos del Perú. <em>Revista peruana de biología.</em> 23(2), 127-150., available online at http://www.scielo.org.pe/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1727-99332016000200006 [details]   

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. <em>Patrimoines Naturels.</em> 50: 180-213., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/ocrd/254404.pdf [details]   

additional source Abbott, R. T. (1974). <i>American seashells. The marine Mollusca of the Atlantic and Pacific coast of North America</i>. ed. 2. Van Nostrand, New York. 663 pp., 24 pls. [October 1974]. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Valentich-Scott P. (1998). Class Bivalvia. In: Taxonomic Atlas of the Benthic Fauna of the Santa Maria Basin and Western Santa Barbara Channel. The Mollusca Part 1 – The Aplacophora, Polyplacophora, Scaphopoda, Bivalvia and Cephalopoda. Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. volume 8: 97-173.  [details]   

additional 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]   

additional source Kamenev G.M. (2013) Species composition and distribution of bivalves in bathyal and abyssal depths of the Sea of Japan. <i>Deep-Sea Research II</i> 86-87: 124-139. [Published online 2 August 2012] , available online at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.08.004 [details]   

additional source Turgeon, D., Quinn, J. F., Bogan, A. E., Coan, E. V., Hochberg, F. G., Lyons, W. G., Mikkelsen, P. M., Neves, R. J., Roper, C. F. E., Rosenberg, G., Roth, B., Scheltema, A., Thompson, F. G., Vecchione, M., Williams, J. D. (1998). Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates from the United States and Canada: mollusks. 2nd ed. <i>American Fisheries Society Special Publication</i>, 26. American Fisheries Society: Bethesda, MD (USA). ISBN 1-888569-01-8. IX, 526 + cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Oliver, P.G.; Killeen, I.J.; Ockelmann, K.W. (2002). The Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of the British Continental Shelf and North Sea oil fields: an identification manual. <i>Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Systematics from the National Museum of Wales. BIOMÔR Reports</i>, 3. National Museums & Galleries of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 0-7200-0531-0. vi, 73 pp., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/156186.pdf [details]   
 
 Present  Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

From other sources
Dimensions reaches 1 cm in size [details]

Distribution Greenland to off North Carolina; Bering Sea to off San Diego, California [details]

Habitat bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details]

Reproduction separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details]

Spelling Thyarsira flexuosa in Ardovini & Cossignani [details]

Type locality Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall [details]
LanguageName 
Danish almindelig foldmusling  [details]
Dutch golfschelpgewone golfschelp  [details]
English wavy hatchet-shellwavy hatchetclamflexuose cleftclam  [details]
German Gewöhnliche FaltenmuschelGewellte Sichelmuschel  [details]
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