WoRMS taxon details
Mya arenaria Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 140430
AphiaID: 140430
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Myoida (Order) > Myoidea (Superfamily) > Myidae (Family) > Mya (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Mya Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Mya acuta Say, 1822 Mya acuta mercenaria Say, 1822 Mya alba Agassiz, 1839 Mya arenaria corbuloides Comfort, 1938 Mya communis Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811 Mya corpulenta Conrad, 1845 Mya declivis Pennant, 1777 Mya elongata Locard, 1886 Mya hemphilli Newcomb, 1874 Mya japonica Jay, 1857 Mya lata J. Sowerby, 1815 Mya oonogai Makiyama, 1935 Mya subovata Woodward, 1833 Mya subtruncata Woodward, 1833 Sphenia ovoidea Carpenter, 1864 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 164 [details] additional source: Zhang J.L., Xu F.S. & Liu J.Y. (2012) The Myidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) from Chinese waters with description of a new species. Zootaxa 3383: 39–60. [Published 10 July 2012], available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2012/2/zt03383p060.pdf [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: 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: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (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] from synonym: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Mya arenaria corbuloides Comfort, 1938 accepted as Mya arenaria Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Anse de Belliveau [details] Arctic Ocean [details] Atlantic Europe [details] Baltic sea [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Belt Sea [details] Black Sea [details] Brandy Cove [details] British Isles [details] Browns Flat [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] Cobscook Bay [details] De Haan [details] De Panne [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Elbe [details] Europe [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] German Bight [details] Goote Bank [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Knokke-Heist [details] L'Etang [details] Manicouagan [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Mistake Cove [details] Muuga harbour (Port of Tallinn, Gulf of Finland) [details] Navy Island [details] North Adriatic [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oak Point [details] Oostduinkerke [details] Polish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Andrews [details] Saint John Harbour [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Spuikom [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Ukrainian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wadden Sea [details] Westkust [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
suspension feeder [details]
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| Host of |
Herrmannella rostrata Canu, 1891 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Leptinogaster major (Williams, 1907) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Myicola metisiensis Wright R., 1885 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Myicola major (Williams, 1907) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Myocheres major (Williams, 1907) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Global invasive species database - Mya arenaria Guide to the exotic species of San Francisco bay - Mya arenaria Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1181 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (100 nucleotides; 59 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 |
Alien species: It is believed that the softshell or sand gaper Mya arenaria was introduced from America in the 16th or 17th century. There is also evidence that Vikings brought this species to Europe around 1245-1295, intentionally as food or accidentally in bilge water. Because the sand gaper is able to survive in different types of environments, it has a worldwide distribution. It is a large clamp – up to 15 centimetres – which, when abundantly present, can significantly influence the environment. Because of its entrenched way of life (sometimes up to 50 centimetres deep in the soil!) its presence often remains unnoticed. [details] Dimensions: reaches 2.5 to 15 cm in size [details] Distribution: Circumboreal, not reaching the Mediterranean [details] Distribution: Labrador to off Georgia; Western Europe [details] Habitat: intertidal, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Importance: edible [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:140430 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Mya arenaria Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140430 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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