WoRMS taxon details
Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin, 1791)
AphiaID: 156972
AphiaID: 156972
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pectinoida (Order) > Pectinoidea (Superfamily) > Pectinidae (Family) > Palliolinae (Subfamily) > Placopecten (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Placopecten Verrill, 1897 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ostrea magellanica Gmelin, 1791 (original combination) Pecten tenuicostatus Mighels & Adams, 1842 (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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] 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: Gosner, K.L. 1978. A field guide to the Atlantic seashore. The Peterson Field Guide Series. Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, MA. 329 p. [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: 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: 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] from synonym: 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] [view taxon] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Distribution | Cobscook Bay [details] Digby [details] Gazi Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Irish Exclusive economic Zone [details] Joes Point [details] Lepreau [details] L'Etang [details] L'Etete [details] Mascarene [details] North West Atlantic [details] The Wolves [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To FAO Species fact sheets To GenBank (34 nucleotides; 67 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 12.5 to 20 cm in size [details] Distribution: 51.7°N to 35.3°N; 75°W to 56°W, Labrador to Cape Hatteras, North Carolina [details] Habitat: infralittoral and circalittoral of the Gulf and estuary [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] Importance: edible [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:156972 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Dijkstra, H. (2013). Placopecten magellanicus (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=156972 on 2013-05-22 | ||||||||||||||
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