WoRMS taxon details
Cyrtodaria siliqua (Spengler, 1793)
AphiaID: 140102
AphiaID: 140102
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > [unassigned] Euheterodonta (Order) > Hiatelloidea (Superfamily) > Hiatellidae (Family) > Cyrtodaria (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Cyrtodaria Reuss, 1801 | |||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Glycimeris incrassata Lamarck, 1801 Glycimeris incrustata Bosc, 1801 Mya picea W. Wood, 1815 Mya siliqua Spengler, 1793 | |||||||||||||||||
| 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: 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: 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: 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] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Manicouagan [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (81 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To Macrozoobenthos communities of Svalbard To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 5 to 7.5 in size [details] Distribution: A Northwestern Atlantic species; records in the European Arctic should go to Cyrtodaria kurriana Dunker, 1861 fide Kantor et al., 2005 [details] Distribution: Labrador to Rhode Island [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Predators: fish [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:140102 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Cyrtodaria siliqua (Spengler, 1793). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140102 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||||||
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