WoRMS taxon details
Thyasira flexuosa (Montagu, 1803)
AphiaID: 141662
AphiaID: 141662
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Lucinoida (Order) > Thyasiroidea (Superfamily) > Thyasiridae (Family) > Thyasira (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Thyasira Lamarck, 1818 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Axinus flexuosus (Montagu, 1803) (Subsequent combination) Cryptodon barbarensis Dall, 1890 Lucina sinuata Lamarck, 1818 Tellina flexuosa Montagu, 1803 (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: 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: 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: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details] additional source: Kamenev G.M. (2013) Species composition and distribution of bivalves in bathyal and abyssal depths of the Sea of Japan. Deep-Sea Research II 86-87: 124-139. [Published online 2 August 2012] , available online at http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2012.08.004 [details] additional source: Oliver, P.G.; Killeen, I.J.; Ockelmann, K.W. (2002). The Thyasiridae (Mollusca: Bivalvia) of the British Continental Shelf and North Sea oil fields: an identification manual. Studies in Marine Biodiversity and Systematics from the National Museum of Wales. BIOMÔR Reports, 3. National Museums & Galleries of Wales: Cardiff, UK. ISBN 0-7200-0531-0. vi, 73 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Azores [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Canadian Exclusive Economic Zone [Atlantic part] [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Danish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Dutch Exclusive Economic Zone [details] England [details] English Channel [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Manicouagan [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] North East Atlantic [details] North Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tunis Gulf [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Mediterranean [details] Wimereux [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtypes |
deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
deposit feeder: surface [details] detritus feeder [details] filter feeder [details] suspension feeder [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Axinophilus thyasirae Bresciani & Ockelmann, 1966 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | BIOTIC Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland To Barcode of Life (2 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (57 publications) To CLEMAM To Dyntaxa To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (12 nucleotides; 2 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 | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 1 cm in size [details] Distribution: Greenland to off North Carolina; Bering Sea to off San Diego, California [details] Habitat: bathyal, 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: Thyarsira flexuosa in Ardovini & Cossignani [details] Type locality: Falmouth Harbour, Cornwall [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141662 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Thyasira flexuosa (Montagu, 1803). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141662 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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