WoRMS taxon details
Amiantis Carpenter, 1864
AphiaID: 205708
AphiaID: 205708
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | ||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Cytherea callosa Conrad, 1837 (type by monotypy) | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Eucallista Dall, 1902 (synonym) | ||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
basis of record: Vaught, K.C. (1989). A classification of the living Mollusca. American Malacologists: Melbourne, FL (USA). ISBN 0-915826-22-4. XII, 195 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [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] | ||||||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Species Amiantis callosa (Conrad, 1837) Species Amiantis purpurata (Lamarck, 1818) Species Amiantis philippinarum (Hanley, 1844) accepted as Lioconcha philippinarum (Hanley, 1844) | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:205708 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Gofas, S. (2013). Amiantis Carpenter, 1864. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=205708 on 2013-05-21 | |||||||||||||||||
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