WoRMS taxon details
Pholas dactylus Linnaeus, 1758
AphiaID: 140770
AphiaID: 140770
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Myoida (Order) > Pholadoidea (Superfamily) > Pholadidae (Family) > Pholadinae (Subfamily) > Pholas (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Pholas Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Pholas callosa Cuvier, 1817 (synonym) Pholas callosa Lamarck, 1818 Pholas dactylina Locard, 1886 Pholas dactylus var. decurtata Jeffreys, 1865 Pholas dactylus var. gracilis Jeffreys, 1865 Pholas edwardsi Monterosato, 1878 Pholas hians Lightfoot, 1786 Pholas jordani van Hoepen, 1941 Pholas marmoratus Perry, 1811 Pholas muricatus da Costa, 1778 Pholas mytiloides Bory de Saint-Vincent, 1827 Zirphaea julan H. Adams & A. Adams, 1856 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (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: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp. page(s): 202 [details] additional source: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [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] basis of record (from synonym): CLEMAM [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Pholas dactylus var. decurtata Jeffreys, 1865 accepted as Pholas dactylus Linnaeus, 1758 Variety Pholas dactylus var. gracilis Jeffreys, 1865 accepted as Pholas dactylus Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] De Panne [details] East Coast of England [details] English Channel [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North Africa [details] North West Atlantic [details] Red Sea [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Africa [details] Wimereux [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Leptinogaster pholadis Pelseneer, 1929 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Herrmannella barneae (Pelseneer, 1929) (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Biodiversity Heritage Library (527 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (50 nucleotides; 6 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Range covers both subprovinces of Acadian and Virginian. [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140770 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Pholas dactylus Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140770 on 2013-06-19 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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