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Sphenia binghami Turton, 1822 
AphiaID: 140432

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Myoida (Order) > Myoidea (Superfamily) > Myidae (Family) > Sphenia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Sphenia Turton, 1822
Parent Sphenia Turton, 1822
Synonymised
taxa		  Mya binghami (Turton, 1822)
 Mya binghami var. elongata Jeffreys, 1865
Sources  original description: Turton W. (1822). Conchylia dithyra Insularum britannicarum. The bivalve shells of the British Islands. London pp. 279 + 2O pl:  [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]

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: 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]

additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch kleine gaper  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
British Isles [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Goote Bank [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
Mediterranean Sea [details]
North Africa [details]
Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
West Africa [details]
Wimereux [details]
Feedingtype  suspension feeder [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (17 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
Images 
Sphenia binghami
Sphenia binghami
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Sphenia binghami Turton, 1822Specimen from La Goulette, Tunisia (3-4 m, 30.03.2009), actual size 4.3 mm
Sphenia binghami Turton, 1822
Specimen from La Goulette, Tunisia (3-4 m, 30.03.2009), actual size 4.3 mm
added on 2013-02-05 - author: Antit, Mouna
qualitystatus: checked by Gofas, Serge on 2013-02-05 13:38:33
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140432
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
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2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Sphenia binghami Turton, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140432 on 2013-06-19
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