WoRMS taxon details
Zirfaea crispata (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 140771
AphiaID: 140771
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Myoida (Order) > Pholadoidea (Superfamily) > Pholadidae (Family) > Pholadinae (Subfamily) > Zirfaea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Zirfaea Gray, 1842 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Mya crispata Linnaeus, 1758 Pholas bifrons da Costa, 1778 Pholas crispata (Linnaeus, 1758) Zirfaea crispata var. truncata Kaas, 1939 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [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: 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: 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] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Zirfaea crispata var. truncata Kaas, 1939 accepted as Zirfaea crispata (Linnaeus, 1758) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Bay of Biscay [details] Bay of Fundy [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Cobscook Bay [details] De Haan [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] North West Atlantic [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Oostduinkerke [details] Oostende [details] Saint Martins [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wadden Sea [details] Wimereux [details] Zeeland [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Herrmannella barneae (Pelseneer, 1929) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (31 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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 5 to 8.5 cm in size [details] Distribution: Labrador to Delaware; Europe [details] Habitat: intertidal, infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [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] Spelling: In Müller (2004) as Zirphea crispata [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:140771 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Huber, M.; Gofas, S. (2013). Zirfaea crispata (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=140771 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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