WoRMS taxon details
Chama macerophylla Gmelin, 1791
AphiaID: 397039
AphiaID: 397039
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Chamoidea (Superfamily) > Chamidae (Family) > Chama (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||
| Parent | Chama Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Chama citrea Gmelin, 1791 Chama imbricata Lamarck, 1801 Chama lazarus Lamarck, 1819 Chama macerophylla var. purpurascens Poulsen, 1878 Chama macerophylla var. sulphurea Poulsen, 1878 | ||||||||||
| 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] basis of record: ITIS database, available online at http://www.itis.gov [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] additional source: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 151 [details] | ||||||||||
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| Direct child taxa [show all] | Variety Chama macerophylla var. purpurascens Poulsen, 1878 accepted as Chama macerophylla Gmelin, 1791 Variety Chama macerophylla var. sulphurea Poulsen, 1878 accepted as Chama macerophylla Gmelin, 1791 | ||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||
| Distribution | Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Jamaica [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Puerto Rico [details] San Andres [details] Venezuela [details] | ||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life To Biodiversity Heritage Library (50 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (6 nucleotides; 0 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | ||||||||||
| Note |
Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] | ||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:397039 | ||||||||||
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| Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Chama macerophylla Gmelin, 1791. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397039 on 2013-05-25 | |||||||||||
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