WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Pandora inaequivalvis (Linnaeus, 1758)

Pandora inaequivalvis (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 140674

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Anomalodesmata (Order) > Pandoroidea (Superfamily) > Pandoridae (Family) > Pandora (Genus)

Status

accepted

Record
status

Checked by Taxonomic Editor

Rank

Species

Parent

Pandora Bruguière, 1797

Synonymised
taxa

Pandora rostrata Philippi, 1836

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: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 168 [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: 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: Hayward, P.J.; Ryland, J.S. (Ed.) (1990). The marine fauna of the British Isles and North-West Europe: 1. Introduction and protozoans to arthropods. Clarendon Press: Oxford, UK. ISBN 0-19-857356-1. 627 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

Vernacular
Names

Language	Name
Dutch	Pandoraschelp	[details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]

Variety Pandora inaequivalvis var. obtusa Jeffreys, 1865 accepted as Pandora pinna (Montagu, 1803)
Variety Pandora inaequivalvis var. sicula Lamy, 1934 accepted as Pandora sicula Lamy, 1934
Variety Pandora inaequivalvis var. tenuis Jeffreys, 1865 accepted as Pandora albida (Röding, 1798)

Environment

marine

Distribution

Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone (not certain) [details]
English Channel [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Isle of Man [details]
Pointe Imessouane (Morocco) [details]
Tunis Gulf [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Wimereux (not certain) [details]

Links

To Biodiversity Heritage Library (58 publications)
To CLEMAM
To Encyclopedia of Life
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales
To PESI
To ITIS

Images

Pandora inaequivalvis
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam (

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qualitystatus: not checked

Pandora inaequivalvis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Specimens from La Goulette, Tunisia (soft bottoms 10-15 m), actual size C, SEM view of a juvenile specimen, same locality (scale 100 µm); D: prodissoconch of the same specimen, actual size 3.2 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:140674

Taxonomic
Edit history

Date	action	by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z	created	Gofas, Serge

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Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Pandora inaequivalvis (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140674 on 2013-05-23

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