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Callista erycina (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216543

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Callista (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Callista Poli, 1791
Synonymised
taxa		  Callista lilacina (Lamarck, 1818)
 Chione lilacina (Lamarck, 1818)
 Cytherea lilacina Lamarck, 1818
 Venus erycina Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Sources  basis of record: Vine, P. (1986). Red Sea Invertebrates. Immel Publishing, London. 224 pp. (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]

original description (from synonym): Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

Distribution Red Sea [details]
Links To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (24 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Callista erycina
Callista erycina
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216543
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
1997-11-21 08:42:41Z  created  Fondo, Esther
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Callista erycina (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216543 on 2013-06-20
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