WoRMS taxon details
Mactromeris polynyma (Stimpson, 1860)
AphiaID: 156863
AphiaID: 156863
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Mactroidea (Superfamily) > Mactridae (Family) > Mactromeris (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Mactromeris Conrad, 1868 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Callista voyi Gabb, 1869 Mactra grandis Deshayes, 1832 Mactra grayana Schrenck, 1867 Mactra loebbeckeana Weinkauff, 1881 Mactra ovalis Gould, 1839 (invalid: junior homonym of Mactra ovalis J. Sowerby, 1817; Mactra polynyma is a replacement name) Mactra polynyma Stimpson, 1860 Mactra ponderosa Philippi, 1844 Mactra similis W. Wood, 1828 Spisula alaskana Dall, 1921 Spisula polynyma (Stimpson, 1860) Spisula vladivostokensis Bartsch, 1929 Spisula voji korolevae Zhidkova, 1972 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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: 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: 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 (from synonym): ArcOD species list provided by Falk Huettmann on 2007-11-25 (look up in IMIS) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
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| Distribution | Cobscook Bay [details] Digby [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Lorneville Harbour [details] Manicouagan [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] St. Lawrence Estuary (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), Saguenay Fjord, northern Gaspe waters, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), Magdalen Islands (from eastern Bradelle valley to the west, as far as Cape North, including the Cape Breton Channel), 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), upper North Shore (between Sept- Iles and Pointe des Monts), middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands), lower north Shore; southwestern slope of NL. [details] Habitat: bathyal, 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:156863 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Mactromeris polynyma (Stimpson, 1860). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156863 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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