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Eumarcia paupercula (Holten, 1802) 
AphiaID: 224885

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Eumarcia (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Eumarcia Iredale, 1924
Synonymised
taxa
  Anomalocardia alfredensis Bartsch, 1915
Anomalocardia kockii (misspelling)
Anomalocardia paupercula (Holten, 1802)
Chione ambigua Deshayes, 1853
Tapes kochi (Philippi, 1843)
Venus kochii Philippi, 1843
Venus paupercula Holten, 1802
Sources  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]

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. 1972. Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca (2), with the description of new species and subspecies of Conus, Nassarius, Vexillum and Demoulia. Annals of the Natal Museum 21(2):391-437, 15 figs. [details]

additional source: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 199 [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: 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]

from synonym: MacNae, W. & M. Kalk (eds) (1958). A natural history of Inhaca Island, Mozambique. Witwatersrand Univ. Press, Johannesburg. I-iv, 163 pp. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English beaked clam  [details]
Environment marine, brackish
Distribution East Coast of South Africa [details]
Madagascar (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mozambique [details]
South Coast of South Africa [details]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Image 
Eumarcia paupercula
Eumarcia paupercula
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224885
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2006-03-17 07:57:46Z  created  Mussai, Prakash
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
2012-07-07 17:10:24Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Eumarcia paupercula (Holten, 1802). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224885 on 2013-05-25
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