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Abra lioica (Dall, 1881) 
AphiaID: 156730

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Tellinoidea (Superfamily) > Semelidae (Family) > Abra (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Abra Lamarck, 1818
Synonymised
taxa		  Amphidesma deforme Philippi, 1849
 Syndosmya lioica Dall, 1881
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: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details]

additional source: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English smooth abra  [details]
Distribution Caribbean Sea [details]
Cuba [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Mexico [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Note  Distribution: Cape Cod to south Florida and the West Indies [details]
Image 
Abra lioica
Abra lioica
added on 2013-01-21 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156730
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2005-05-19 14:10:07Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z  checked  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Abra lioica (Dall, 1881). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156730 on 2013-05-25
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