WoRMS taxon details
Arca zebra (Swainson, 1833)
AphiaID: 420713
AphiaID: 420713
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Arcoida (Order) > Arcoidea (Superfamily) > Arcidae (Family) > Arca (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | ||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | ||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | ||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Arca Linnaeus, 1758 | ||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Arca barbadensis d'Orbigny, 1853 Arca commutata Kobelt, 1889 Arca occidentalis Philippi, 1847 Byssoarca zebra Swainson, 1833 | ||||||||||||||||
| 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] 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: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp. page(s): 130 [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | ||||||||||||||||
| Distribution | Aruba [details] Belize [details] Bonaire [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Curaçao [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Hispaniola [details] Jamaica [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Mexico [details] Panama [details] Puerto Rico [details] San Andres [details] Venezuela [details] | ||||||||||||||||
| Host of |
Pseudomyicola spinosus (Raffaele & Monticelli, 1885) (parasitic: ectoparasitic)
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| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (18 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | ||||||||||||||||
| Notes |
Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details] Habitat: Known from the nearshore. [details] | ||||||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420713 | ||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Arca zebra (Swainson, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420713 on 2013-05-23 | |||||||||||||||||
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