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Anomia achaea [sic] 
AphiaID: 207753

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pectinoida (Order) > Anomioidea (Superfamily) > Anomiidae (Family) > Anomia (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (misspelling)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Anomia achaeus Gray, 1850
Rank Species
Parent Anomia Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa
  Anomia argyritis Reeve, 1859
Anomia belesis Gray, 1850
Anomia malleata Reeve, 1859
Anomia perplexa Turton, 1932
Anomia plenilunium Reeve, 1859
Anomia problematica Turton, 1932
Anomia scabra Reeve, 1859
Anomia sol Reeve, 1859
Sources  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]

basis of record: Spry, J.F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records 63, available online at http://e-library.costech.or.tz/collect/tanzania/index/assoc/HASHb932.dir/doc.pdf [details]

additional source: Branch, G.M. et al. (2002). Two Oceans. 5th impression. David Philip, Cate Town & Johannesburg., available online at http://books.google.es/books?id=W_2QB8ftLgcC [details]

from synonym: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1929). Contribution à l'étude de la faune de Madagascar: Mollusca marina testacea. Faune des colonies françaises, III(fasc. 4). Société d'Editions géographiques, maritimes et coloniales: Paris. 321-636, plates IV-VII pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English saddle oyster  [details]
Distribution East Coast of South Africa [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique [details]
Tanzania [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Image 
Pelseneer (1911, pl. 04)
Pelseneer (1911, pl. 04)
added on 2009-08-13 - author: P. Pelseneer
scan provided by VLIZ - Wetenschatten
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:207753
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
1998-08-21 16:11:41Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-08-17 07:11:08Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-23 11:55:17Z  checked  Huber, Markus
2011-12-21 22:16:06Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2012-07-14 19:34:51Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Anomia achaea [sic]. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=207753 on 2013-05-24
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