WoRMS taxon details
Acesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858
AphiaID: 138124
AphiaID: 138124
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Limoida (Order) > Limoidea (Superfamily) > Limidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Ostrea excavata Fabricius, 1779 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Limidae Rafinesque, 1815 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Acesta (Acesta) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 Acesta (Callolima) Bartsch, 1913 Acesta (Plicacesta) Vokes, 1963 | |||||||||||||
| 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] basis of record (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] | |||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Species Acesta agassizii (Dall, 1902) Species Acesta angolensis (Adam & Knudsen, 1955) Species Acesta borneensis (Bartsch, 1913) Species Acesta bullisi (Vokes, 1963) Species Acesta butonensis (Bartsch, 1913) Species Acesta celebensis (Bartsch, 1913) Species Acesta citrina Masahito & Habe, 1976 Species Acesta colombiana (Vokes, 1970) Species Acesta diomedae (Dall, 1908) Species Acesta excavata (Fabricius, 1779) Species Acesta goliath (G. B. Sowerby III, 1883) Species Acesta indica (E. A. Smith, 1899) Species Acesta maui B. A. Marshall, 2001 Species Acesta mori (Hertlein, 1952) Species Acesta niasensis (Thiele, 1918) Species Acesta oophaga Järnegren, Schander & Young, 2007 Species Acesta patagonica (Dall, 1902) Species Acesta philippinensis (Bartsch, 1913) Species Acesta rathbuni (Bartsch, 1913) Species Acesta saginata B. A. Marshall, 2001 Species Acesta smithi (G. B. Sowerby III, 1888) Species Acesta sphoni (Hertlein, 1963) Species Acesta verdensis (Bartsch, 1913) Species Acesta virgo Habe & Okutani, 1968 Subgenus Acesta (Acesta) H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 represented as Acesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 (alternate representation) Subgenus Acesta (Callolima) Bartsch, 1913 represented as Acesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 (alternate representation) Subgenus Acesta (Plicacesta) Vokes, 1963 represented as Acesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858 (alternate representation)
Species Acesta iwaotakii Habe, 1961 accepted as Divarilima iwaotakii (Habe, 1961) Species Acesta marissinica Yamashita & Habe, 1969 accepted as Acesta philippinensis (Bartsch, 1913) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138124 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Acesta H. Adams & A. Adams, 1858. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138124 on 2013-06-18 | ||||||||||||||
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