WoRMS taxon details
Periploma fragile (Totten, 1835)
AphiaID: 156939
AphiaID: 156939
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Anomalodesmata (Order) > Thracioidea (Superfamily) > Periplomatidae (Family) > Periploma (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Periploma Schumacher, 1817 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Anatina fragilis Totten, 1835 | ||||||||||
| 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: 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: 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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Distribution | Bliss Harbour [details] Cobscook Bay [details] Deadmans Harbour [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Hardwood Island [details] L'Etang [details] Lime Kiln Bay [details] Lorneville Harbour [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saguenay Fjord [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 2.5 cm in size [details] Distribution: Saguenay Fjord, southern Gaspe waters (Baie des Chaleurs, Gaspe Bay to American, Orphan and Bradelle banks; eastern boundary: eastern Bradelle Valley), lower St. Lawrence estuary; middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands) [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] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:156939 | ||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Periploma fragile (Totten, 1835). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156939 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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