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Acharax Dall, 1908 
AphiaID: 293237

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Protobranchia (Subclass) > Solemyoida (Order) > Solemyoidea (Superfamily) > Solemyidae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Solemya johnsoni Dall, 1891 (type by original designation)
Parent Solemyidae Gray, 1840
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]

redescription: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details]

Direct child
taxa
[show all]		 Species Acharax alinae Métivier & Cosel, 1993
Species Acharax bartschii (Dall, 1908)
Species Acharax caribbaea (Vokes, 1970)
Species Acharax clarificata Dell, 1995
Species Acharax gadirae Oliver, Rodrigues & Cunha, 2011
Species Acharax grandis (Verrill & Bush, 1898)
Species Acharax johnsoni (Dall, 1891)
Species Acharax patagonica (E. A. Smith, 1885)
Species Acharax prashadi (Vokes, 1955)

Species Acharax eremita Kuznetzov & Schileyko, 1984 accepted as Acharax caribbaea (Vokes, 1970)
Environment marine, brackish, fresh, terrestrial
Links To GenBank
To ITIS
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:293237
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2008-02-07 03:14:47Z  created  Vanden Berghe, Edward
2010-10-09 17:37:21Z  checked  Bouchet, Philippe
2012-06-19 02:26:38Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Acharax Dall, 1908. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=293237 on 2013-06-19
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