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Spathochlamys benedicti (Verrill & Bush in Verrill, 1897) 
AphiaID: 393788

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pectinoida (Order) > Pectinoidea (Superfamily) > Pectinidae (Family) > Pedinae (Subfamily) > Spathochlamys (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Spathochlamys Waller, 1993
Synonymised
taxa
  Chlamys benedicti Verrill & Bush in Verrill, 1897 (original combination)
Chlamys verrilli Dollfus, 1898 (unnecessary replacement name for Chlamys benedicti Verrill & Bush, 1897, by Dollfus treated as a secondary homonym of Pecten benedictus Lamarck, 1819)
Pecten (Chlamys) nympha Bavay, 1906 (synonym)
Pecten mundus Reeve, 1853 (Invalid: junior homonym of Pecten mundus M'Coy, 1844)
Sources  basis of record: 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]

new combination reference: 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]

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 Caribbean Sea [details]
Costa Rica [details]
Gulf of Mexico [details]
Jamaica [details]
Lesser Antilles [details]
Puerto Rico [details]
Tropical West Atlantic [details]
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (1 publication)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Notes  Depth range: below littoral [details]

Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]

Length: >15 mm [details]
Image 
Spathochlamys benedicti
Spathochlamys benedicti
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:393788
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2009-04-25 19:23:33Z  created  Dijkstra, Henk
  
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  Citation: Dijkstra, H. (2013). Spathochlamys benedicti (Verrill & Bush in Verrill, 1897). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=393788 on 2013-05-20
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