WoRMS taxon details
Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791)
AphiaID: 422678
AphiaID: 422678
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Mercenaria (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Mercenaria Schumacher, 1817 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Mercenaria carolinensis Conrad, 1875 Mercenaria cuneata Conrad, 1868 Mercenaria kennicottii Dall, 1871 Mercenaria obtusa Conrad, 1866 Venus alboradiata G. B. Sowerby II, 1853 Venus apodema Dall, 1902 Venus calcarea Philippi, 1844 Venus campechiensis Gmelin, 1791 (original combination) Venus campechiensis var. quadrata Dall, 1902 Venus capax Conrad, 1844 Venus mortoni Conrad, 1837 Venus permagna Conrad, 1838 Venus praeparca Say, 1822 Venus submortoni d'Orbigny, 1852 Venus tenuilamellata G. B. Sowerby II, 1853 Venus tetrica Conrad, 1838 | |||||||||||||
| 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] redescription: 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] | |||||||||||||
| All child taxa [hide all] | Subspecies Mercenaria campechiensis campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791) Subspecies Mercenaria campechiensis texana (Dall, 1902) | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | Belize [details] Caribbean Sea [details] Cayman Islands [details] Cuba [details] Gulf of Mexico [details] Lesser Antilles [details] Mexico [details] Puerto Rico [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | To Biodiversity Heritage Library (21 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (3 nucleotides; 2 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:422678 | |||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Mercenaria campechiensis (Gmelin, 1791). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=422678 on 2013-06-20 | ||||||||||||||
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