WoRMS taxon details
Astarte borealis (Schumacher, 1817)
AphiaID: 138818
AphiaID: 138818
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Archiheterodonta (Infraclass) > Carditoida (Order) > Crassatelloidea (Superfamily) > Astartidae (Family) > Astarte (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||
| Parent | Astarte J. de C. Sowerby, 1816 | |||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Astarte borealis crassa Pfeffer, 1886 Astarte bornholmi Hopner Petersen, 2001 Astarte fjordi Hopner Petersen, 2001 Astarte islandica Deshayes in d'Orbigny, 1849 (junior synonym) Astarte jenseni Hopner Petersen, 2001 Astarte lactea Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829 Astarte moerchi Hopner Petersen, 2001 Astarte nordi Hopner Petersen, 2001 Astarte nuuki Hopner Petersen, 2001 Astarte olchovica Petrov, 1982 Astarte producta G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 Astarte richardsonii Reeve, 1855 Astarte semisulcata Leach in Ross, 1819 Astarte semisulcata var. placenta Mörch, 1869 Astarte silki Hopner Petersen, 2001 Astarte subtrigona G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 Crassina corrugata T. Brown, 1827 Crassina depressa T. Brown, 1827 Crassina semisulcata Leach in Ross, 1819 Crassina withami J. Smith, 1839 Mactra veneriformis Wood, 1828 Tridonta borealis Schumacher, 1817 Tridonta cavalli Pollonera, 1901 | |||||||||||||||
| Sources |
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] 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] 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: 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] additional source: de Kluijver, M.J.; Ingalsuo, S.S.; de Bruyne, R.H. (2000). Macrobenthos of the North Sea [CD-ROM]: 1. Keys to Mollusca and Brachiopoda. World Biodiversity Database CD-ROM Series. Expert Center for Taxonomic Identification (ETI): Amsterdam, The Netherlands. ISBN 3-540-14706-3. 1 cd-rom pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] from synonym: Høpner Petersen G. (2001). Studies on some Arctic and baltic Astarte species (Bivalvia, Mollusca). Meddelelser om Grønland, Bioscience 52: 1-71 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Zettler M.L. (2001). Recent geographical distribution of the Astarte borealis complex, its nomenclature and bibliography. Schriften zur Malakozoolgie 18: 1-14 [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Astarte borealis crassa Pfeffer, 1886 accepted as Astarte borealis (Schumacher, 1817) Variety Astarte borealis var. sericea Posselt, 1895 accepted as Astarte sericea Posselt, 1895 | |||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Atlantic [details] Beaufort Sea [details] Canada [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Clam Cove [details] Cobscook Bay [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Indian Island [details] L'Etang [details] Lorneville Harbour [details] Manicouagan [details] North Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Croix [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] The Wolves [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] USA [details] | |||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (237 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard 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 2.5 to 5 cm in size [details] Distribution: Arctic seas to Massachusetts Bay; Alaska to Japan [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [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] | |||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:138818 | |||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Astarte borealis (Schumacher, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138818 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||
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