WoRMS taxon details
Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot, 1786)
AphiaID: 160340
AphiaID: 160340
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Palaeoheterodonta (Subclass) > Unionoida (Order) > Unionoidea (Superfamily) > Unionidae (Family) > Elliptio (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Elliptio Rafinesque, 1819 | ||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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] | ||||||||||
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| Distribution | Gulf of Maine [details] Mistake Cove [details] North West Atlantic [details] Nova Scotia [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (28 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (15 publications) To GenBank (1345 nucleotides; 39 proteins) To IUCN Red List To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Notes |
Distribution: North America [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:160340 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Elliptio complanata (Lightfoot, 1786). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=160340 on 2013-06-19 | |||||||||||
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