WoRMS taxon details
Arctica islandica (Linnaeus, 1767)
AphiaID: 138802
AphiaID: 138802
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Arcticoidea (Superfamily) > Arcticidae (Family) > Arctica (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Arctica Schumacher, 1817 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Arctica vulgaris Schumacher, 1817 Cyprina islandica (Linnaeus, 1767) Cyprina islandica var. crassior Jeffreys, 1864 Cyprina islandica var. inflata Odhner, 1911 Pectunculus crassus da Costa, 1778 Venus buccardium Born, 1778 Venus ferröensis Röding, 1798 Venus islandica Linnaeus, 1767 (original combination) Venus pitar Röding, 1798 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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] 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: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 159 [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: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [details] additional source: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [details] additional source: Thomas, M.L.H. (ed.). 1983. Marine and coastal systems of the Quoddy Region, New Brunswick. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 64. 306 p. [details] additional source: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [details] additional source: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Backeljau, T. (1986). Lijst van de recente mariene mollusken van België [List of the recent marine molluscs of Belgium]. Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen: Brussels, Belgium. 106 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] from synonym: Harms, J. , 1993. Check list of species (algae, invertebrates and vertebrates) found in the vicinity of the island of Helgoland (North Sea, German Bight) - a review of recent records. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuch. 47 1: 1-34. [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1767). Systema naturae sive regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Laurentii Salvii, Holmiae. 12th ed. v. 1 (pt 2): 533-1327, available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/83650#5 [details] [view taxon] [full text] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Atlantic [details] Bay of Biscay [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Clam Cove [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Deadmans Harbour [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Hardwood Island [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] L'Etang [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] USA [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (22 nucleotides; 13 proteins) 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 |
Dimensions: reaches 7.5 to 12.5 cm in size [details] Distribution: Arctic to Cape Hatteras [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [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] Synonymy: Originally described as Venus islandica Linnaeus, 1767. [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138802 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Arctica islandica (Linnaeus, 1767). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138802 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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