WoRMS taxon details
Astarte montagui (Dillwyn, 1817)
AphiaID: 138823
AphiaID: 138823
| 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 abbreviata G. B. Sowerby II, 1874 Astarte angulata Woodward, 1833 Astarte compressa (Montagu, 1808) Astarte globosa Møller, 1842 Astarte klinti Hopner Petersen, 2001 Astarte laurentiana Lyell, 1845 Astarte laurentiana soror Dall, 1903 Astarte multicostata Macgillivray, 1843 Astarte pulchella Jonas in Philippi, 1845 Crassina convexiuscula T. Brown, 1827 Crassina obliqua T. Brown, 1827 Nicania banksii Leach in Ross, 1819 Nicania montagui (Dillwyn, 1817) Nicania montagui orientalis Scarlato, 1981 Nicania striata Leach in Ross, 1819 Tridonta montagui (Dillwyn, 1817) Venus compressa Montagu, 1808 Venus montacuti Turton, 1819 Venus montagui Dillwyn, 1817 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [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: Howson, C.M.; Picton, B.E. (Ed.) (1997). The species directory of the marine fauna and flora of the British Isles and surrounding seas. Ulster Museum Publication, 276. The Ulster Museum: Belfast, UK. ISBN 0-948150-06-8. vi, 508 (+ cd-rom) pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] 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: 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 montagui warhami Hancock, 1846 accepted as Astarte warhami Hancock, 1846 | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Bay of Biscay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Beaufort Sea [details] British Isles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Manicouagan [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Croix [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] USA [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (16 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 |
Dimensions: reaches 1.25 to 2 cm in size [details] Distribution: Greenland to Massachusetts [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:138823 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Astarte montagui (Dillwyn, 1817). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=138823 on 2013-05-18 | |||||||||||||||||
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