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Anomia aculeata Müller, 1776 
AphiaID: 156735

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pectinoida (Order) > Anomioidea (Superfamily) > Anomiidae (Family) > Anomia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (synonym)
Record
status
 Edited by Database Management Team
Accepted name  Heteranomia squamula (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Parent Anomia Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details]

basis of record: Gosner, K.L. 1971. Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 693 p. (look up in IMIS[details]

basis of record: Linkletter, L.E. 1977. A checklist of marine fauna and flora of the Bay of Fundy. Huntsman Marine Laboratory, St. Andrews, N.B. 68 p. [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 jingle shell  [details]
Distribution Atlantic [details]
Canada [details]
Frost Cove [details]
Gulf of Maine [details]
L'Etang [details]
L'Etete [details]
Lorneville Harbour [details]
North West Atlantic [details]
The Wolves [details]
USA [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (221 publications)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Dimensions: reaches 20 mm in size [details]

Distribution: Labrador to North Carolina. Northern Europe [details]

Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details]

Habitat: attaches to rocks and broken shells from lowtide mark to 600 m [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]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156735
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2005-05-19 14:10:07Z  created  Cuvelier, Daphne
2010-03-31 06:40:42Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2010-11-18 14:08:23Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
  
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  Citation: WoRMS (2013). Anomia aculeata Müller, 1776. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156735 on 2013-05-24
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