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Pitar fulminatus (Menke, 1828) 
AphiaID: 420952

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Pitar (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pitar Römer, 1857
Synonymised
taxa
  Cytherea fulminatus Menke, 1828
Cytherea penistoni Heilprin, 1890
Cytherea rubiginosa Philippi, 1845
Cytherea varians Hanley, 1844
Venus holosericea Gmelin, 1791
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]

Distribution Belize [details]
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 (1 barcode)
To Biodiversity Heritage Library (2 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (4 nucleotides; 2 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Note  Habitat: Known from seamounts and knolls [details]
Image 
Pitar fulminatus
Pitar fulminatus
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:420952
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2009-10-06 12:38:14Z  created  db_admin
2010-09-23 11:55:17Z  checked  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Pitar fulminatus (Menke, 1828). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=420952 on 2013-05-22
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