WoRMS taxon details
Donax variabilis Say, 1822
AphiaID: 156776
AphiaID: 156776
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Tellinoidea (Superfamily) > Donacidae (Family) > Donax (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Donax Linnaeus, 1758 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Donax bella Reeve, 1854 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [details] basis of record: Pollock, L.W. (1998). A practical guide to the marine animals of northeastern North America. Rutgers University Press. New Brunswick, New Jersey & London. 367 pp., available online at http://books.google.com/books?id=i1AmT31cuR4C [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] additional source: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 158 [details] from synonym: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (95 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: Virginian, southside of Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156776 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Donax variabilis Say, 1822. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156776 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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