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Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817 
AphiaID: 138642

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Mercenaria violacea Schumacher, 1817 (type by monotypy)
Parent Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815
Synonymised
taxa		  Crassivenus Perkins, 1869 (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]

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taxa
[hide all]		 Species Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
  » Subspecies Mercenaria campechiensis campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
» Subspecies Mercenaria campechiensis texana (Dall, 1902)
Species Mercenaria hartae Petuch, 2013
Species Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Mercenaria stimpsoni (Gould, 1861)
Species Mercenaria texana (Dall, 1902)

Species Mercenaria cancellata Gabb, 1860 accepted as Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Mercenaria carolinensis Conrad, 1875 accepted as Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Mercenaria cuneata Conrad, 1868 accepted as Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Mercenaria fulgurans Tryon, 1865 accepted as Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Mercenaria kennicottii Dall, 1871 accepted as Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Mercenaria obtusa Conrad, 1866 accepted as Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
Species Mercenaria paucilamellata Dunker, 1863 accepted as Bassina pachyphylla (Jonas, 1839)
Species Mercenaria rutila Sternheimer, 1957 accepted as Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
  » Subspecies Mercenaria rutila rarilineata Sternheimer, 1957 accepted as Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Species Mercenaria violacea Schumacher, 1817 accepted as Mercenaria mercenaria (Linnaeus, 1758)
Environment marine
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138642
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
2005-04-14 07:47:17Z  changed  Cuvelier, Daphne
2011-03-14 19:17:39Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
2012-10-12 19:36:57Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138642 on 2013-05-22
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