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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCodakia punctata (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 215837

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBivalvia (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterodonta (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuheterodonta (Infraclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorImparidentia (Superorder) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLucinida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLucinoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLucinidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCodakiinae (Subfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCodakia (Genus) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCodakia punctata (Species)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCodakia Scopoli, 1777
Orig. name Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVenus punctata Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCodokia punctata (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCytherea punctata Lamarck, 1818
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLucina punctata (Linnaeus, 1758)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVenus punctata Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Sources 
redescription Glover E.A. & Taylor J.D. (2007). Diversity of chemosymbiotic bivalves on coral reefs: Lucinidae (Mollusca, Bivalvia) of New Caledonia and Lifou Zoosystema 29(1): 109-181 [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. [details]

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Environment marine
Distribution 
From other sources
Indian Ocean
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorChagos [details]
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMascarene Basin [details]
Madagascar
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMadagascar [from synonym] [details]
Mozambique
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMozambique [details]
Republic of Mauritius
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorMauritius [details]
Seychelles
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorSeychelles [details]
Tanzania
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTanzania [details]
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
ImageChecked: verified by a taxonomic editor 
Codakia punctata
Codakia punctata
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:215837
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-03-06 07:04:47Z  changed  Taylor, John
  
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  Citation: Taylor, J. (2015). Codakia punctata. In: MolluscaBase (2015). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=215837 on 2016-09-28
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