WoRMS taxon details
Calyptogena magnifica Boss & Turner, 1980
AphiaID: 464366
AphiaID: 464366
| Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Glossoidea (Superfamily) > Vesicomyidae (Family) > Calyptogena (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||||||||
| Parent | Calyptogena Dall, 1891 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Ectenagena magnifica (Boss & Turner, 1980) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Boss, K.J. & Turner, R.D., 1980. The giant white clam from the Galapagos Rift, Calyptogena magnifica species novum. Malacologia 20: 161-194. [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): 161 [details] additional source: 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] context source (Deepsea): Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. The Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS), available online at http://www.iobis.org/ [details] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine, | |||||||||||||||||||
| Links | To Barcode of Life (12 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (8 publications) To Encyclopedia of Life To GenBank (39 nucleotides; 15 proteins) To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection | |||||||||||||||||||
| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:464366 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomic Edit history |
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| Citation: Bouchet, P.; Huber, M.; Rosenberg, G. (2013). Calyptogena magnifica Boss & Turner, 1980. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464366 on 2013-05-24 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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