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Pitar striatus (Gray, 1838) 
AphiaID: 215024

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Pitar (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pitar Römer, 1857
Synonymised
taxa		  Cytherea striata Gray
 Meretrix striata Gray
Sources  basis of record: Dautzenberg, Ph. (1923). Liste préliminaire des mollusques marins de Madagascar et description de deux espèces nouvelles. J. conchyliol. 68: 21-74 (look up in IMIS) [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]

basis of record (from synonym): Odhner, N.H.J. (1919). Contribution a la faune malacologique de Madagasar. Arkiv för Zoologi, K. Svenska Vetenskapsakademien, 12(6): 1-52, 4 pl., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/6455070 [details] [view taxon]

Distribution Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (5 nucleotides; 5 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Note  Remark: Subgenus Caryatis [details]
Image 
Pitar striatus
Pitar striatus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215024
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2001-12-09 09:59:46Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-08-17 07:11:08Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-23 11:55:17Z  checked  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Pitar striatus (Gray, 1838). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215024 on 2013-06-20
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