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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMeretrix lusoria (Röding, 1798) 
AphiaID: 397139

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBivalvia (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorHeterodonta (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorEuheterodonta (Infraclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVeneroida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVeneroidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVeneridae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMeretrix (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMeretrix Lamarck, 1799
Synonymised
names		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCytherea formosa G. B. Sowerby II, 1851
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCytherea graphica Lamarck, 1818
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMeretrix virgatula Tomlin, 1923
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorVenus lusoria Röding, 1798 (original combination)
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. (look up in IMIS) [details]

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Environment marine
Host of  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorConchyliurus quintus Tanaka, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorLichomolgus similis Ho & I.H. Kim, 1991 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstrincola koe Tanaka, 1961 (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life (18 barcodes) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (36 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (40 nucleotides; 49 proteins) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection 
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:397139
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2009-06-04 05:46:50Z  created  db_admin
2010-09-23 10:34:21Z  changed  Huber, Markus
2011-08-13 20:38:52Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
2011-08-16 11:00:49Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Huber, M. (2014). Meretrix lusoria (Röding, 1798). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=397139 on 2014-07-12
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