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Laternula elliptica (King & Broderip, 1832) 
AphiaID: 197217

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Anomalodesmata (Order) > Thracioidea (Superfamily) > Laternulidae (Family) > Laternula (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Laternula Röding, 1798
Synonymised
taxa
  Anatina elliptica King & Broderip, 1832 (original combination)
Anatina prismatica G. B. Sowerby I, 1834
Mya antarctica Melvill & Standen, 1914
Thracia antarctica Melvill & Standen, 1898
Sources  basis of record: Southern Ocean Mollusc Database (SOMBASE), available online at http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/BAS_Science/programmes2000-2005/ABPPF/SOMBASE [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: Engl W. (2012) Shells of Antarctica. Hackenheim: Conchbooks. 402 pp. [details]

basis of record (from synonym): Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [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]

Links To Antarctic Invertebrates
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (229 nucleotides; 18 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Images 
Laternula elliptica_siphons
Laternula elliptica_siphons
added on 2006-07-27 - author: Stefano Schiaparelli
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Benthos in 16 m of depth
Benthos in 16 m of depth
added on 2007-05-15 - author: Martin Rauschert
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:197217
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2006-03-03 15:46:48Z  created  db_admin
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Laternula elliptica. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=197217 on 2013-06-19
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