WoRMS taxon details
Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 140431
AphiaID: 140431
| 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Typetaxon of |
Hiatula Modeer, 1793 Mya Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Mya Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Corbula gibbosa Broderip & G. B. Sowerby I, 1829 Mya ovalis Turton, 1822 Mya praecisa Gould, 1850 Mya pullus J. de C. Sowerby, 1826 Mya truncata pelagica King, 1846 Mya truncata uddevallensis Forbes, 1846 Mya truncata var. abbreviata Jeffreys, 1865 Sphenia swainsoni Turton, 1822 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: 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: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (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: 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 Mya truncata ovata Jensen, 1900 accepted as Mya pseudoarenaria Schlesch, 1931 Subspecies Mya truncata pelagica King, 1846 accepted as Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758 Subspecies Mya truncata uddevallensis Forbes, 1846 accepted as Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758 Variety Mya truncata var. abbreviata Jeffreys, 1865 accepted as Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bay of Biscay [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] De Haan [details] Deer Island [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 18 [details] Goote Bank [details] Greens Point [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Hudson Strait [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Lepreau [details] Manicouagan [details] North East Atlantic [details] North West Atlantic [details] Oostduinkerke [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Spuikom [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (702 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (7 nucleotides; 1 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 |
Dimensions: reaches 2.5 to 7.5 cm in size [details] Distribution: Circumboreal [details] Distribution: Arctic seas to Nahant, Massachusetts; Europe; Arctic seas to Washington; Japan [details] Habitat: bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [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:140431 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Mya truncata Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140431 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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