WoRMS taxon details
Plectodon Carpenter, 1865
AphiaID: 391103
AphiaID: 391103
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Anomalodesmata (Order) > Cuspidarioidea (Superfamily) > Cuspidariidae (Family) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Genus | |||||||||||||||||||
| Typetaxon | Plectodon scaber Carpenter, 1865 (type by monotypy) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Cuspidariidae Dall, 1886 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Carpenter P. P. (1864). Supplementary report on the present state of our knowledge with regard to the Mollusca of the west coast of North America. Reports of the British Association for the Advancement of Science (1863) 33: 517-686 [details] basis of record: Poutiers, J.M. & F.R. Bernard. 1995. Carnivorous bivalve molluscs (Anomalodesmata) from the tropical western Pacific Ocean, with a proposed classification and a catalogue of Recent species. In : P. BOUCHET (ed.), Résultats des Campagnes MUSORSTOM, vol. 14. Mémoires Muséum national Histoire naturelle, 167 : 107-187. [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 Plectodon brazieri (E. A. Smith, 1885) Species Plectodon granulatus (Dall, 1881) Species Plectodon lepidus B. A. Marshall, 2002 Species Plectodon ligula (Yokoyama, 1922) Species Plectodon pruinosus B. A. Marshall, 2002 Species Plectodon regalis B. A. Marshall, 2002 Species Plectodon scaber Carpenter, 1865 Species Plectodon braziliensis (E. A. Smith, 1915) accepted as Plectodon granulatus (Dall, 1881) Species Plectodon granulata Dall, 1881 accepted as Plectodon granulatus (Dall, 1881) Species Plectodon tanabensis Habe, 1960 accepted as Leiomya adunca (Gould, 1861) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||||||||
| Link | To ITIS | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:391103 | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Citation: Gofas, S.; Bouchet, P. (2013). Plectodon Carpenter, 1865. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=391103 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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