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Thyasira gouldi (Philippi, 1845) 
AphiaID: 141663

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 gouldii Philippi, 1845 (Original description)
Cryptodon inaequalis Verrill & Bush, 1898
Cryptodon planus Verrill & Bush, 1898
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: 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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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
 
Language   Name 
English gould cleftclam  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [details]
Cobscook Bay [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) [details]
Greenlandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
Gulf of St. Lawrence [details]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details]
L'Etang [details]
Lorneville Harbour [details]
North Sea [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Saguenay Fjord [details]
Saint Croix [details]
Shetlands [details]
St. Lawrence Estuary [details]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details]
Links BIOTIC
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 0 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: offshore [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]

Type locality: Off Massachusetts, USA [details]
Images 
Thyasira gouldi
Thyasira gouldi
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Thyasira gouldi
Thyasira gouldi
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Thyasira gouldi
Thyasira gouldi
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Thyasira gouldi
Thyasira gouldi
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Thyasira gouldi
Thyasira gouldi
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141663
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2004-12-21 15:54:05Z  created  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Thyasira gouldi (Philippi, 1845). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141663 on 2013-06-20
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