WoRMS taxon details
Spisula solida (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 140301
AphiaID: 140301
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Mactroidea (Superfamily) > Mactridae (Family) > Spisula (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Spisula Gray, 1837 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cardium solidum Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Cardium triste Linnaeus, 1758 Cyrena panormitana Bivona, 1839 Mactra castanea Lamarck, 1818 Mactra crassatella Lamarck, 1818 Mactra gallina Spengler, 1802 Mactra ovalis J. Sowerby, 1817 Mactra sachalinensis var. conjunctiva Jeffreys, 1864 Mactra striata Nyst, 1845 Mactra truncata Montagu, 1808 Spisula (Spisula) ovalis (J. Sowerby, 1817) Trigonella gallina da Costa, 1778 Trigonella zonaria da Costa, 1778 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [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: 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: 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] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Icelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Moroccan Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Morocco [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Oostduinkerke [details] Oostende [details] Russian part of the Black Sea [details] Spanish Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] Tunis Gulf (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Ukrainian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Herrmannella rostrata Canu, 1891 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Biodiversity Heritage Library (32 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Description: A thick oval shell, mostly coloured dirty white and measuring up to 50 mm long. Concentric lines at the front and back are reasonably coarse, growth lines are clear. A shallow burrowing suspension feeder. [details] Distribution: With observations in the coastal zone up to in the open sea the distribution of Spisula solida covers the entire Belgian part of the North Sea. The species is mainly found on the tops of the sandbanks. During the 1976-1986 period S. solida was found in a relatively high number of locations. In the 1994-2001 period, however, the distribution frequency decreased considerably. In both periods S. solida reached a maximum density of 40 ind./m2. [details] Habitat: Spisula solida mainly prefers coarse-grained sediments: the higher the median grain size, the higher the relative occurrence (up to 20%). The species furthermore also tends to prefer the presence of a low mud content (0-20%). The species does not occur in sediments with a mud content exceeding 20%.The high relative occurrence (20%) in sediments with a median grain size of 50-100 μm is considered unreliable (outlier). [details] Validity: Valid as Spisula (Spisula) solida (Linnaeus, 1758) [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140301 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Spisula solida (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140301 on 2013-06-18 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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