WoRMS taxon details
Meretrix meretrix (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 224891
AphiaID: 224891
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Meretrix (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Meretrix Lamarck, 1799 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Cytherea castanea Lamarck, 1818 Cytherea corpulenta Gray, 1838 Cytherea ponderosa Schumacher, 1817 Meretrix labiosa Lamarck, 1801 Venus meretrix Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| 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] basis of record: 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: 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): 244 [details] 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] | |||||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Meretrix meretrix var. aurora Hornell, 1917 accepted as Meretrix aurora Hornell, 1917 Variety Meretrix meretrix var. bourdasi Fischer-Piette & Fischer, 1941 accepted as Meretrix attenuata Dunker, 1863 Variety Meretrix meretrix var. reevei Fischer-Piette & P. H. Fischer, 1941 accepted as Meretrix lamarckii Deshayes, 1853 | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Mozambique [details] | |||||||||||||
| Host of |
Conchyliurus bombasticus Reddiah, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Conchyliurus fragilis Reddiah, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Lichomolgus similis Ho & I.H. Kim, 1991 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) Ostrincola portonoviensis Reddiah, 1962 (parasitic: ectoparasitic) | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (15 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (49 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (37269 nucleotides; 83 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:224891 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Meretrix meretrix (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=224891 on 2013-05-20 | ||||||||||||||
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