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Timoclea marica (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 216598

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Timoclea (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Timoclea T. Brown, 1827
Synonymised
taxa
  Chione marica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Leukoma japonica Kira, 1954
Venus djiboutiensis Jousseaume, 1894
Venus marica Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Sources  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]

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]

from synonym: Michel, C. (1988). Marine molluscs of Mauritius. Editions de l'Ocean Indien. Stanley, Rose Hill. Mauritius [details] [view taxon]

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]

Distribution Chagos [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mauritius (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Red Sea [details]
Tanzania [details]
Links Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE)
To Barcode of Life
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Timoclea marica
Timoclea marica
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:216598
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
1997-02-22 16:55:09Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Timoclea marica (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=216598 on 2013-05-19
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