WoRMS taxon details
Bathyarca pectunculoides (Scacchi, 1835)
AphiaID: 138799
AphiaID: 138799
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Arcoida (Order) > Arcoidea (Superfamily) > Arcidae (Family) > Bathyarca (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||
| Parent | Bathyarca Kobelt, 1891 | |||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Arca koreni Danielssen, 1859 Arca pectunculiformis Locard, 1886 Arca pectunculoides Scacchi, 1835 (original combination) Arca pectunculoides var. major Friele, 1878 Arca pectunculoides var. septentrionalis G. O. Sars, 1878 Arca verrilli Lamy, 1907 Bathyarca pectunculoides var. pellucida Oliver & Allen, 1980 Bathyarca petunculoides (misspelling) | |||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Scacchi A. 1835. Notizie intorno alle conchiglie ed a' zoofiti fossili che si trovano nelle vicinanze di Gravina in Puglia. Annali Civili del Regno delle Due Sicilie 6: 75-84; 7: 5-18, 2 pl. [the date of vol. 6 often stated as 1834, but both issues stated as published later than 8th October 1835 by Cretella et al., 2005] page(s): p. 82, pl. 1 fig. 12 a,b [details] 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] basis of record: 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] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] additional source: Ardovini, R.; Cossignani, T. (2004). West African seashells (including Azores, Madeira and Canary Is.) = Conchiglie dell'Africa Occidentale (incluse Azzorre, Madeira e Canarie). English-Italian edition. L'Informatore Piceno: Ancona, Italy. ISBN 88-86070-11-X. 319 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Morton B. (1982). Functional morphology of Bathyarca pectunculoides (Bivalvia: Arcacea) from a deep Norwegian fjord with a discusssion of the mantle margin in the Arcoida.. Sarsia 67: 269-282 [details] from synonym: Check List of European Marine Mollusca (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: BODC (2009). Species list from the British Oceanographic Data Centre. [details] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| All child taxa [hide all] | Variety Bathyarca pectunculoides var. pellucida Oliver & Allen, 1980 accepted as Bathyarca pectunculoides (Scacchi, 1835) | |||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Bay of Fundy [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] North West Atlantic [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] USA (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] West Mediterranean [details] | |||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (23 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||
| Notes |
Biology: Type of larval development: not documentes [inferred from egg size and prodissoconch morphology to be to be short planktonic, non-planktotrophic] [details] Diagnosis: Shell very small, up to 3 mm, with a straight cardinal line running over the entire length; ventral margin rounded, slightly sinuous and more salient in the back. Cardinal line with very few teeth, generally three to each side of the umbo. Exterior with very fine radial ribs and commarginal grooves. Colour white, fresh or live specimens yellowish with two stained areas before and after the umbo. [details] Dimensions: reaches 5 mm in size [details] Distribution: Eastern Atlantic, from northern Norway to Senegal, also Canary and Cape Verde Islands; Mediterranean; Western Atlantic from Greenland to Gulf of St. Lawrence Gorringe, Josephine, Ampère and Seine seamounts, common in 165-630 m; Great Meteor, Hyères, Irving and Atlantis seamounts, uncommon in 420-845 m; Plato seamount, common in 580-710 m. [details] Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: bathyal and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Nomenclature: Placed on the Official List of specific names in Zoology by Opinion 1887 of ICZN (1998) [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] Type locality: Gravina, province of Bari, Italy (Plio-Pleistocene fossil) [details] | |||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138799 | |||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Bathyarca pectunculoides (Scacchi, 1835). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138799 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||
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