WoRMS taxon details
Brachidontes exustus (Linnaeus, 1758)
AphiaID: 397026
AphiaID: 397026
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Mytiloida (Order) > Mytiloidea (Superfamily) > Mytilidae (Family) > Brachidontes (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Brachidontes Swainson, 1840 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Brachidontes exustus var. rosaceus Nowell-Usticke, 1969 Modiola magellanica Reeve, 1857 Mytilus biceps Menke, 1848 Mytilus domingensis Lamarck, 1819 Mytilus exustus Linnaeus, 1758 Mytilus lavalleanus d'Orbigny, 1853 | ||||||||||
| 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] additional source: 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] 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] taxonomy source: Bennett K.F., Reed A.J. & Lutz R.A. (2011) DNA barcoding reveals Brachidontes (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) from two ecologically distinct intertidal habitats on Long Key, Florida Keys, are cryptic species, not ecotypes. The Nautilus 125(2): 63-71. [details] context source (Deepsea): Natural History Museum, London (NHM): Collections Management Database System , available online at http://www.nhm.ac.uk/research-curation/collections/collections-management [details] | ||||||||||
| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Brachidontes exustus var. rosaceus Nowell-Usticke, 1969 accepted as Brachidontes exustus (Linnaeus, 1758) | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Gulf of Mexico [details] | ||||||||||
| Host of |
Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raffaele & Monticelli, 1885) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (19 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (237 nucleotides; 167 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:397026 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Brachidontes exustus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397026 on 2013-05-22 | |||||||||||
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