WoRMS taxon details
Martesia fragilis Verrill & Bush, 1898
AphiaID: 156865
AphiaID: 156865
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Myoida (Order) > Pholadoidea (Superfamily) > Pholadidae (Family) > Martesiinae (Subfamily) > Martesia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Typetaxon of |
Martesiella Verrill & Bush, 1898 | ||||||||||
| Parent | Martesia G. B. Sowerby I, 1824 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Martesia (Martesia) fragilis Verrill & Bush, 1898 Martesia bahamensis Bartsch & Rehder, 1945 Martesia exquisita Bartsch & Rehder, 1945 Pholadidea minuscula Dall, 1908 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
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: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS) [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] 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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| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Cuba [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] North West Atlantic [details] Venezuela [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Distribution: off Virginia to Texas; Brazil [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156865 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Martesia fragilis Verrill & Bush, 1898. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156865 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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