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Donax madagascariensis W. Wood, 1828 
AphiaID: 216503

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Tellinoidea (Superfamily) > Donacidae (Family) > Donax (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Donax (Grammatodonax) Dall, 1900
Parent Donax Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa		  Donax (Grammatodonax) madagascarensis Wood, 1828
 Donax exaratus Krauss, 1848
 Grammatodonax madagascariensis (Wood)
Sources  basis of record: 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]

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]

additional source: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 189 [details]

additional source: Steyn, D.G. & Lussi, M. (1998) Marine Shells of South Africa. An Illustrated Collector’s Guide to Beached Shells. Ekogilde Publishers, Hartebeespoort, South Africa, ii + 264 pp.
page(s): 232 [details]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Oliver P.G. (1992) Bivalved seashells of the Red Sea. Wiesbaden: Christa Hemmen. 330 pp.
page(s): 161 [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English ridged wedge shell  [details]
Environment marine
Distribution East Coast of South Africa [details]
Madagascar [details]
Mozambique [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Donax madagascariensis
Donax madagascariensis
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216503
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2001-11-14 15:35:57Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2002-08-07 17:52:24Z  changed  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-08-12 09:40:27Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2011-09-22 18:28:29Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
2012-07-07 17:10:24Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Bouchet, P. (2013). Donax madagascariensis W. Wood, 1828. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216503 on 2013-05-24
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