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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 editorImparidentia (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLucinida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThyasiroidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorThyasiridae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMendicula (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMendicula pygmaea (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMendicula Iredale, 1924
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCryptodon (Axinulus) pygmaeus Verrill & Bush, 1898
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAxinulus pygmaea (Verrill & Bush, 1898)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAxinulus pygmaeus (Verrill & Bush, 1898)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCryptodon (Axinulus) pygmaeus 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., available online at http://www.vliz.be/imisdocs/publications/156186.pdf [details]

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Environment marine
Distribution  Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editortype locality Nova Scotia [details]
From other sources
Gulf of Mexico
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Mexico [details]
Iceland
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorIcelandic Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
North Atlantic Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorEuropean waters (ERMS scope) [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorGulf of Maine [from synonym] [view taxon] [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth West Atlantic [from synonym] [details]
North Sea
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorth Sea [details]
Norway
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorNorwegian Exclusive Economic Zone [details]
Skagerrak
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSkagerrak [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. (2008). Mendicula pygmaea (Verrill & Bush, 1898). In: MolluscaBase (2016). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=152424 on 2016-09-29
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