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Meretrix lamarckii Deshayes, 1853 
AphiaID: 367844

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 fusca Koch in Philippi, 1845
Cytherea morphina G. B. Sowerby II, 1851
Meretrix compressa Römer, 1866
Meretrix meretrix var. reevei Fischer-Piette & P. H. Fischer, 1941
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]

Host of  Paraphiloconcha meretricis Yamaguti, 1936 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links To Barcode of Life (10 barcodes)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (26 nucleotides; 45 proteins)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:367844
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2008-10-01 07:48:25Z  created  Decock, Wim
2010-08-17 07:11:08Z  changed  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-23 11:55:17Z  checked  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Meretrix lamarckii Deshayes, 1853. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=367844 on 2013-05-20
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