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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMendicula pygmaea (Verrill & Bush, 1898) 
AphiaID: 152424

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBivalvia (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterodonta (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuheterodonta (Infraclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLucinoida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThyasiroidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThyasiridae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMendicula (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMendicula Iredale, 1924
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAxinulus pygmaea (Verrill & Bush, 1898)
 Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorCryptodon pygmaea Verrill & Bush, 1898 (Original combination)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMendicula pygmaeus (Verrill & Bush, 1898) (Spelling variation)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThyasira pygmaea (Verrill & Bush, 1898) (currently placed in genus Mendicula)
Sources  basis of record 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]

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Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Gulf of Mexico
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Mexico [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEuropean waters (ERMS scope) [from synonym] [view taxon]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Maine [from synonym] [view taxon]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorUnited Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth Sea [details]
Skagerrak
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSkagerrak [details]
(no group)
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorIcelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Feedingtypes  deposit feeder: subsurface [details]
grazer [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorto CLEMAM
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo PESI
Note 
From other sources
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorType locality Off Nova Scotia [details]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:152424
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-04-11 09:31:37Z  created  Claus, Simon
2008-05-19 18:11:19Z  checked  Gofas, Serge
  
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  Citation: Gofas, S. (2013). Mendicula pygmaea (Verrill & Bush, 1898). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152424 on 2013-12-12
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