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Placuna placenta (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 367820

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pectinoida (Order) > Anomioidea (Superfamily) > Placunidae (Family) > Placuna (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Placuna Lightfoot, 1786
Synonymised
taxa
  Anomia placenta Linnaeus, 1758
Ephippium transparens Röding, 1798
Placenta auriculata Mörch, 1853
Placenta communis Megerle von Mühlfeld, 1811
Placenta orbicularis Philipsson, 1788
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: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 140 [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]

Environment marine
Host of  Anthessius placunae Devi, 1984 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (1 nucleotides; 0 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Placuna placenta
Placuna placenta
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367820
Taxonomic
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Date   action   by
2008-10-01 07:48:25Z  created  Decock, Wim
2010-09-23 11:55:17Z  checked  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Placuna placenta (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367820 on 2013-05-20
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