WoRMS taxon details
Semele purpurascens (Gmelin, 1791)
AphiaID: 420916
AphiaID: 420916
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Tellinoidea (Superfamily) > Semelidae (Family) > Semele (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Semele Schumacher, 1817 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Amphidesma laeta Reeve, 1853 Amphidesma variabile Gray, 1825 Amphidesma variegata Lamarck, 1818 Semele (Amphidesma) purpurascens (Gmelin, 1791) Semele ornata Gould, 1862 Semele sparsilineata Dall, 1915 Tellina obliqua W. Wood, 1815 (invalid: placed on the Official Index by ICZN Opinion 948) Venus purpurascens Gmelin, 1791 (original combination) | |||||||||||||
| 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): 159 [details] from synonym: Coan E.V. & Valentich-Scott P. (2012) Bivalve seashells of tropical West America. Marine bivalve mollusks from Baja California to northern Peru. 2 vols, 1258 pp. Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History. [details] [view taxon] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belize [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Colombia [details] Costa Rica [details] Cuba [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Jamaica [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Mexico [details] Puerto Rico [details] San Andres [details] Venezuela [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (27 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To ITIS | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420916 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Semele purpurascens (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420916 on 2013-05-23 | ||||||||||||||
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