WoRMS taxon details
Anadara transversa (Say, 1822)
AphiaID: 156734
AphiaID: 156734
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Arcoida (Order) > Arcoidea (Superfamily) > Arcidae (Family) > Anadara (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Anadara Gray, 1847 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Anadara demiri (Piani, 1981) Arca amygdalum Demir, 1977 Arca sulcosa van Hyning, 1946 Arca transversa Say, 1822 Scapharca demiri Piani, 1981 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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] basis of record: Turgeon, D.D., et al. 1998. Common and scientific names of aquatic invertebrates of the United States and Canada. American Fisheries Society Special Publication 26 [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: 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] from synonym: Schiaparelli, Stefano (2006). Bivalvi, in: Revisione della Checklist della fauna marina italiana., available online at http://www.faunaitalia.it/checklist/ [details] [view taxon] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] from synonym: Streftaris, N.; Zenetos, A.; Papathanassiou, E. (2005). Globalisation in marine ecosystems: the story of non-indigenous marine species across European seas. Oceanogr. Mar. Biol. Ann. Rev. 43: 419-453 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] from synonym: Albano P.G., Rinaldi E., Evangelisti F., Kuan M. & Sabelli B., 2009. On the identity and origin of Anadara demiri (Bivalvia: Arcidae. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 89(6): 1289-1298. [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] European waters (ERMS scope) (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Greek Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Jamaica [details] Mediterranean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] North Coast of Tunisia [details] North West Atlantic [details] Puerto Rico [details] Saint Croix [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (29 publications) to CLEMAM To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 4 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 2 to 3 cm in size [details] Distribution: Maine to Florida and Texas [details] Habitat: in mud below low water [details] Reproduction: separate sexes, usually not dimorphic in shell structure; fertilization occurs within the mantle cavity anf young hatch as pelagic larvae (generalized for group) [details] Synonymy: Albano et al. (2009) showed that Anadara demiri (Piani, 1981), originally described from the Turkish coast and long believed to be introduced from an unknown Indo-Pacific origin, is a synonym of the Western Atlantic Anadara transversa [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156734 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Anadara transversa. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156734 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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