WoRMS taxon details
Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831)
AphiaID: 157005
AphiaID: 157005
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Protobranchia (Subclass) > Nuculanoida (Order) > Nuculanoidea (Superfamily) > Yoldiidae (Family) > Yoldia (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Yoldia Möller, 1842 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Nucula limatula Say, 1831 | ||||||||||
| 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: 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: 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] 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] | ||||||||||
| Vernacular Names |
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Subspecies Yoldia limatula gardneri Oldroyd, 1935 accepted as Yoldia hyperborea (Gould, 1841) | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Cobscook Bay [details] Gulf of Maine [details] Gulf of St. Lawrence [details] Lorneville Harbour [details] Manicouagan [details] North West Atlantic [details] Saint Croix [details] Saint Lawrence River [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (1 barcode) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (235 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (18 nucleotides; 13 proteins) To PESI To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Dimensions: reaches 2 to 6 cm in size [details] Distribution: Gulf of St. Lawrence (unspecified region), 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), 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), lower St. Lawrence estuary, middle North Shore (from Sept- Iles to Cape Whittle, including the Mingan Islands); western slope of Newfoundland, including the southern part of the Strait of Belle Isle but excluding the upper 50m in the area southwest of Newfoundland; North Carolina [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] | ||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:157005 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G. (2013). Yoldia limatula (Say, 1831). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=157005 on 2013-05-24 | |||||||||||
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