WoRMS taxon details
Astarte subaequilatera G. B. Sowerby II, 1854
AphiaID: 156746
AphiaID: 156746
| 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 crebricostata Gould in Binney, 1870 Astarte crenata subaequilatera G. B. Sowerby II, 1854 Astarte crenata subequilatera [sic] (misspelling) Astarte lens Stimpson Verrill, 1872 Astarte subaequilatera var. whiteavesii Dall, 1903 | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
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: 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: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [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 |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Astarte subaequilatera var. whiteavesii Dall, 1903 accepted as Astarte subaequilatera G. B. Sowerby II, 1854 | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Clam Cove [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] L'Etang [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Croix [details] St. Lawrence Estuary [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 2.5 to 3 cm in size [details] Distribution: Arctic seas to off Florida [details] Habitat: shallow-water 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:156746 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Huber, M.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Astarte subaequilatera G. B. Sowerby II, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156746 on 2013-06-20 | |||||||||||||||||
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