WoRMS taxon details
Astarte castanea (Say, 1822)
AphiaID: 156744
AphiaID: 156744
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Archiheterodonta (Infraclass) > Carditoida (Order) > Crassatelloidea (Superfamily) > Astartidae (Family) > Astarte (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Astarte J. de C. Sowerby, 1816 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Astarte castanea picea Gould, 1841 Astarte castanea procera Totten, 1835 Venus castanea Say, 1822 | ||||||||||
| 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: Brunel, P., Bosse, L. & Lamarche, G. (1998). Catalogue of the marine invertebrates of the estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Canadian Special Publication of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, 126. 405 p. (look up in IMIS) [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] basis of record: Trott, T.J. 2004. Cobscook Bay inventory: a historical checklist of marine invertebrates spanning 162 years. Northeastern Naturalist (Special Issue 2): 261 - 324. [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] | ||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Astarte castanea picea Gould, 1841 accepted as Astarte castanea (Say, 1822) Subspecies Astarte castanea procera Totten, 1835 accepted as Astarte castanea (Say, 1822) | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Atlantic [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] North West Atlantic [details] USA [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (137 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 2.5 cm in size [details] Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle valley), lower St. Lawrence estuary; Prince Edward Island (from the northern tip of Miscou Island, N.B. to Cape Breton Island south of Cheticamp, including the Northumberland Strait and Georges Bay to the Canso Strait causeway); Nova Scotia; New Jersey [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from rocky shores. [details] Importance: common dredged species [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] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156744 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Astarte castanea (Say, 1822). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156744 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||
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