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Astarte subaequilatera G. B. Sowerby II, 1854

156746  (urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156746)

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Sowerby, G. B. II. (1854). Monograph of the genus <i>Astarte</i>. In: G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 2 (15): 778-783, pl. 167. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11076004
page(s): 780, pl. 167, fig. 13 [details]   
Distribution Arctic seas to off Florida  
Distribution Arctic seas to off Florida [details]
MolluscaBase eds. (2024). MolluscaBase. Astarte subaequilatera G. B. Sowerby II, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at: https://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156746 on 2024-03-28
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2005-05-19 14:10:07Z
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2010-03-31 06:40:42Z
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2010-09-23 10:44:16Z
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original description Sowerby, G. B. II. (1854). Monograph of the genus <i>Astarte</i>. In: G. B. Sowerby II (ed.), <i>Thesaurus conchyliorum, or monographs of genera of shells</i>. Vol. 2 (15): 778-783, pl. 167. London, privately published. , available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11076004
page(s): 780, pl. 167, fig. 13 [details]   

original description  (of Astarte lens A. E. Verrill & S. Smith, 1872) Verrill, A. E. (1880). Notice of the remarkable marine fauna occupying the outer banks off the southern coast of New England. <em>American Journal of Science.</em> 3(20): 390-403., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/38973336
page(s): 400 [details]   

original description  (of Astarte subaequilatera var. whiteavesii Dall, 1903) Dall, W. H. (1903). Synopsis of the family Astartidae, with a review of the American species. <em>Proceedings of the United States National Museum.</em> 26 (1342): 933-951, pls 42-43. [published 10 July 1903]., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/7612330
page(s): 939 [details]   

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

basis of record Gosner, K. L. (1971). Guide to identification of marine and estuarine invertebrates: Cape Hatteras to the Bay of Fundy. <em>John Wiley & Sons, Inc., London.</em> 693 pp. [pdf copepod and branchiuran :445-455]. (look up in IMIS[details]  Available for editors  PDF available [request] 

additional source Huber, M. (2010). <i>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</i>. Hackenheim: ConchBooks. 901 pp., 1 CD-ROM. (look up in IMIS[details]   

additional source Petit, R. E. (2009). George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. <em>Zootaxa.</em> 2189: 1–218., available online at http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2009/f/z02189p218f.pdf [details]  OpenAccess publication 
 
 Present  Present in aphia/obis/gbif/idigbio   Inaccurate  Introduced: alien  Containing type locality 
   

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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]
LanguageName 
English crenulate astarte  [details]