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Bathyarca Kobelt, 1891 
AphiaID: 137673

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Arcoida (Order) > Arcoidea (Superfamily) > Arcidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Arca pectunculoides Scacchi, 1835 (type by subsequent designation)
Parent Arcidae Lamarck, 1809
Synonymised
taxa
  Bathyarca (Bathyarca) Kobelt, 1891
Microcucullaea Iredale, 1929
Thronacar Iredale, 1939 (synonym)
Sources  basis of record: Gofas, S.; Le Renard, J.; Bouchet, P. (2001). Mollusca, in: Costello, M.J. et al. (Ed.) (2001). European register of marine species: a check-list of the marine species in Europe and a bibliography of guides to their identification. Collection Patrimoines Naturels, 50: pp. 180-213 (look up in IMIS[details]

redescription: 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. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details]

from synonym: 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.  [details] [view taxon]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Bathyarca adelaideana (Iredale, 1929)
Species Bathyarca anaclima (Melvill & Standen, 1907)
Species Bathyarca anomala Verrill & Bush, 1898
Species Bathyarca coccus (Thiele & Jaeckel, 1931)
Species Bathyarca corpulenta (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Bathyarca cuculliformis (Thiele & Jaeckel, 1931)
Species Bathyarca cybaea Hedley, 1906
Species Bathyarca frielei (Friele, 1877)
Species Bathyarca glacialis (Gray, 1824)
Species Bathyarca glomerula (Dall, 1881)
Species Bathyarca imitata (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Bathyarca inaequisculpta (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Bathyarca japonica Habe, 1977
Species Bathyarca kyurokusimana (Nomura & Hatai, 1940)
Species Bathyarca nipponica Okutani, 1962
Species Bathyarca nucleator (Dall, 1908)
Species Bathyarca orbiculata (Dall, 1881)
Species Bathyarca orientalis (Thiele & Jaeckel, 1931)
Species Bathyarca pectunculoides (Scacchi, 1835)
Species Bathyarca perversidens Hedley, 1902
Species Bathyarca philippiana (Nyst, 1848)
Species Bathyarca pisum Dall, Bartsch & Rehder, 1938
Species Bathyarca polycyma (Dall, 1881)
Species Bathyarca sibogai (Prashad, 1932)
Species Bathyarca sinuata Pelseneer, 1903
Species Bathyarca strebeli (Melvill & Standen, 1907)

Species Bathyarca grandis (Leche, 1878) (species inquirenda)

Subgenus Bathyarca (Bathyarca) Kobelt, 1891 represented as Bathyarca Kobelt, 1891 (alternate representation)

Species Bathyarca abyssorum Verrill & Bush, 1898 accepted as Bathyarca inaequisculpta (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Bathyarca grenophia (Risso, 1826) accepted as Bathyarca philippiana (Nyst, 1848)
Species Bathyarca inaequalis (Dall, 1927) accepted as Bathyarca grandis (Leche, 1878)
Species Bathyarca pacifica Nomura, Niino & Zinbo, 1934 accepted as Samacar strabo (Hedley, 1915)
Species Bathyarca petunculoides accepted as Bathyarca pectunculoides (Scacchi, 1835)
Species Bathyarca profundicola (Verrill & Smith, 1885) accepted as Bentharca asperula (Dall, 1881)
Species Bathyarca sagamiensis Okutani, 2000 accepted as Bathyarca nipponica Okutani, 1962
Species Bathyarca xenophoricola Kuroda, 1929 accepted as Xenophorarca xenophoricola (Kuroda, 1929)
Environment marine
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Link To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:137673
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2012-06-25 19:10:10Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Bathyarca Kobelt, 1891. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=137673 on 2013-05-20
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