WoRMS taxon details
Lyonsia hyalina (Conrad, 1831)
AphiaID: 156793
AphiaID: 156793
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Anomalodesmata (Order) > Pandoroidea (Superfamily) > Lyonsiidae (Family) > Lyonsia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Lyonsia Turton, 1822 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Mya hyalina Conrad, 1831 | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
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: 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] additional source: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 169 [details] additional source: Pimenta A.D. & Oliveira C.D. de C. (2013) Taxonomic review of the genus Lyonsia (Pelecypoda: Lyonsiidae) from east coast of South America, with description of a new species and notes on other western Atlantic species. American Malacological Bulletin 31(1): 75–84., available online at http://www.bioone.org/doi/full/10.4003/006.031.0119 [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] | |||||||||||||
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| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Clam Cove [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] L'Etang [details] Minas Basin [details] North West Atlantic [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (107 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 1.5 to 2 cm in size [details] Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), northern Gaspe waters, Magdalen Islands (from Eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel); 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 to North Carolina [details] Ecology: glues sand grains to itself [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [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:156793 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Lyonsia hyalina (Conrad, 1831). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156793 on 2013-05-26 | ||||||||||||||
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