WoRMS taxon details
Chlamys islandica (O. F. Müller, 1776)
AphiaID: 140692
AphiaID: 140692
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pectinoida (Order) > Pectinoidea (Superfamily) > Pectinidae (Family) > Chlamydinae (Subfamily) > Chlamydini (Tribe) > Chlamys (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Chlamys Röding, 1798 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Chlamys Röding, 1798 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Chlamys costellata Verrill & Bush in Verrill, 1897 (synonym) Ostrea cinnabarina Born, 1778 (synonym) Pecten islandicus Müller, 1776 (original combination) | |||||||||||||||||||
| 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] 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: Meinkoth, N.A. 1981. Field guide to North American seashore creatures. The Audubon Society. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 799 p. [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: Costello, M.J.; Emblow, C.; White, R. (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. Muséum national d'Histoire Naturelle: Paris, France. ISBN 2-85653-538-0. 463 pp. [details] additional source: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] from synonym: Gofas, Serge (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Histroical benthic dredge samples from the southern baltic and the North (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Davis Strait [details] Digby [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] FAO fishing area 18 [details] FAO fishing area 21 [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Hudson Strait [details] Manicouagan [details] North West Atlantic [details] Owen Basin [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] The Wolves [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (35 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (31 nucleotides; 12 proteins) To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 7.5 to 10 cm in size [details] Distribution: 77.5°N to 41.7°N; 70.7°W to 20°W, Greenland to Massachusetts [details] Habitat: intertidal, bathyal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Reproduction: species is hermaphrditic; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity and young hatch as pelagic larvae. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140692 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Dijkstra, H.; Gofas, S. (2013). Chlamys islandica (O. F. Müller, 1776). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140692 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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