WoRMS taxon details
Chamelea gallina (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 141907
AphiaID: 141907
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Chamelea (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Chamelea Mörch, 1853 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Chione schottii Dall, 1902 Venus corrugatula Krynicki, 1837 Venus gallina Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) Venus nucleus Statuti, 1880 Venus nuculata Locard, 1892 Venus sinuata Born, 1778 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 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: Zamouri-Langar, N.; Chouba, L.; Ajjabi Chebil, L.; Mrabet, R.; El Abed, A. (2011). Les coquillages bivalves des côtes tunisiennes. Institut National des Sciences et Technologies de la Mer: Salammbô. ISBN 978-9938-9512-0-2. 128 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Muller, Y. (2004). Faune et flore du littoral du Nord, du Pas-de-Calais et de la Belgique: inventaire. [Coastal fauna and flora of the Nord, Pas-de-Calais and Belgium: inventory]. Commission Régionale de Biologie Région Nord Pas-de-Calais: France. 307 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Algiers Bay (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] British Isles [details] Canaries [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Gulf of Gabès [details] Hammamet Gulf [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Jijel (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Mediterranean Sea [details] North Adriatic [details] North Sea [details] Norwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Tunis Gulf [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Wimereux (not certain) [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Feedingtype | suspension feeder [details] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Links | Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland Marine Life Information Network - UK To Barcode of Life (4 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To GenBank (16 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:141907 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Chamelea gallina (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=141907 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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