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Caribachlamys pellucens (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 393708

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pectinoida (Order) > Pectinoidea (Superfamily) > Pectinidae (Family) > Chlamydinae (Subfamily) > Crassadomini (Tribe) > Caribachlamys (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Caribachlamys Waller, 1993
Synonymised
taxa
  Caribachlamys imbricata (Gmelin, 1791)
Ostrea imbricata Gmelin, 1791 (synonym)
Ostrea pellucens Linnaeus, 1758 (original combination)
Pecten imbricatus (Gmelin, 1791)
Sources  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]

from synonym: 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] [view taxon]

from synonym: Waller T. R. (1993). The evolution of "Chlamys" (Mollusca: Bivalvia: Pectinidae) in the tropical western Atlantic and eastern Pacific. American Malacological Bulletin 10 (2): 195-249 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] [view taxon]

context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details]

Environment marine
Distribution Aruba (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Belize [details]
Bonaire (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cayman Islands [details]
Colombia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Cuba (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Curaçao (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Hispaniola [details]
Jamaica [details]
Lesser Antilles (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Mexico [details]
Puerto Rico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
San Andres (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tropical West Atlantic [details]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Notes  Depth range: below littoral [details]

Length: >50 mm [details]
Images 
Caribachlamys pellucens
Caribachlamys pellucens
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked

Caribachlamys pellucens
Caribachlamys pellucens
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:393708
Taxonomic
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2009-04-25 02:12:27Z  created  Dijkstra, Henk
  
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  Citation: Dijkstra, H. (2013). Caribachlamys pellucens (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=393708 on 2013-05-21
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