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Ostrea maxima Linnaeus, 1758 
AphiaID: 393933

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Ostreoida (Order) > Ostreoidea (Superfamily) > Ostreidae (Family) > Ostreinae (Subfamily) > Ostrea (Genus)
Status unaccepted unaccepted (original combination)
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Accepted name  Pecten maximus (Linnaeus, 1758)
Rank Species
Typetaxon of  Pecten O. F. Müller, 1776
Parent Ostrea Linnaeus, 1758
Sources  original description: 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]

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]

Environment marine, fresh, terrestrial
Link To Biodiversity Heritage Library (118 publications)
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:393933
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2009-04-27 13:50:52Z  created  Dijkstra, Henk
2010-11-19 08:29:14Z  checked  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Ostrea maxima Linnaeus, 1758. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=393933 on 2013-06-18
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