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Atrina fragilis (Pennant, 1777) 
AphiaID: 146524

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pterioida (Order) > Pinnoidea (Superfamily) > Pinnidae (Family) > Atrina (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Atrina Gray, 1842
Synonymised
taxa		  Pinna aradasii Maravigna, 1851
 Pinna elegans T. Brown, 1827
 Pinna fragilis Pennant, 1777 (original combination)
 Pinna gemmellarii Maravigna, 1851
 Pinna ingens Pennant, 1777
 Pinna laevis Donovan, 1803
 Pinna pectinata var. angusta Weinkauff, 1868
 Pinna pectinata var. fundazzensis de Gregorio, 1884
 Pinna philippii Maravigna, 1851
 Pinna truncata Philippi, 1844
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: Schultz P.W. & Huber M. (2013) Revision of the worldwide Recent Pinnidae and some remarks of fossil European Pinnidae. Acta Conchyliorum 13: 1-164. [April 2013] [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
Dutch waaiermossel (from synonym)  [details]
English caper long (from synonym)  [details]
English fan mussel  [details]
English pen shell (from synonym)  [details]
French jambonneau (from synonym)  [details]
German steckmuschel (from synonym)  [details]
Irish powder horn (from synonym)  [details]
Modern Greek (1453-) Λεπτή πίννα  [details]
Portuguese funil (from synonym)  [details]
Spanish nacar (from synonym)  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution British Isles [details]
European waters (ERMS scope) (from invalid identification) [details] [view taxon]
Greek Exclusive Economic Zone (from invalid identification) [details] [view taxon]
Irish Exclusive economic Zone (from invalid identification) [details] [view taxon]
United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Links BIOTIC
Encyclopedia of Marine Life of Britain and Ireland
Marine Life Information Network - UK
To Barcode of Life (7 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (9 nucleotides; 7 proteins)
To Marine Bivalves of the British Isles webpage at National Museum of Wales
To PESI
To ITIS
Notes  Distribution: North Sea, British Isles southwards to Mauritania (17°52'N); throughout the Mediterranean.  [details]

Taxonomy: Atrina fragilis has long been mistaken for "Pinna" pectinata Linnaeus, 1767, which is an Indo-Pacific species.  [details]
Images 
Atrina fragilis
Atrina fragilis
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Atrina fragilis
Atrina fragilis
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:146524
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-01-26 08:41:57Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2008-07-05 16:52:17Z  changed  Gofas, Serge
2010-09-23 10:44:16Z  changed  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M.; Gofas, S. (2013). Atrina fragilis (Pennant, 1777). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=146524 on 2013-05-24
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