WoRMS taxon details
Turtonia minuta (Fabricius, 1780)
AphiaID: 141875
AphiaID: 141875
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Turtoniinae (Subfamily) > Turtonia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Turtonia Alder, 1848 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cyamium minutum Mya purpurea Montagu, 1808 Turtonia nitida Verrill, 1872 Turtonia occidentalis Dall, 1871 Venus minuta Fabricius, 1780 (original combination) | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] 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: 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: Ockelmann K. W. (1964). Turtonia minuta (Fabricius), a neotenous Veneracean Bivalve. Ophelia 1 (1): 121-146 [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) page(s): 2 [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] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | ||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Arctic Ocean [details] Beaufort Sea [details] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Canadian part of the Arctic Ocean [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] Mediterranean Sea [details] North West Atlantic [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] West Coast of Norway [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (138 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (4 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 2 to 3 mm in size [details] Distribution: Arctic Seas to Massachusetts; Alaska to Baja California; Europe [details] Distribution: Often very common, circumpolar [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] Taxonomy: Due to neoteny, Ockelmann (1964) suggested that Turtonia minuta could have been arisen out of the Veneridae. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141875 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Huber, M.; Gofas, S. (2013). Turtonia minuta (Fabricius, 1780). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141875 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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