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Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802) 
AphiaID: 464504

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pterioida (Order) > Pterioidea (Superfamily) > Pteriidae (Family) > Pteria (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Pteria Scopoli, 1777
Synonymised
taxa
  Austropteria antelata Holten, 1802 (synonym)
Avicula chinensis Leach, 1814 (synonym)
Avicula crocea Lamarck, 1819 (synonym)
Avicula iridescens Reeve, 1857 (synonym)
Avicula morio Leach, 1814 (synonym)
Avicula trochilus Reeve, 1857 (synonym)
Mytilus avicular Holten, 1802 (original combination)
Pteria chinensis Leach, 1814
Pteria iridescens Reeve
Pteria producta (Reeve, 1857)
Sources  basis of record: Rosenberg, G. 1992. Encyclopedia of Seashells. Dorset: New York. 224 pp.
page(s): 135 [details]


additional source: Kilburn R.N. (1975). Taxonomic notes on South African marine Mollusca (5): including descriptions of new taxa of Rissoidae, Cerithiidae, Tonnidae, Cassididae, Buccinidae, Fasciolariidae, Turbinellidae, Turridae, Architectonicidae, Epitoniidae, Limidae and Thraciidae.. Annals of the Natal Museum 22(2):577-622, figs. 1-25. [details]

status source: Tëmkin I. (2010) Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 342., available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2148-10-342.pdf [details]

source of synonymy (from synonym): 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] [view taxon]

basis of record (from synonym): Sheppard, A (1984). The molluscan fauna of Chagos (Indian Ocean) and an analysis ot its broad distribution patterns. Coral Reefs 3: 43-50. [details] [view taxon]

basis of record (from synonym): Spry, J.F. (1964). The sea shells of Dar es Salaam: Part 2: Pelecypoda (Bivalves). Tanganyika Notes and Records 63, available online at http://e-library.costech.or.tz/collect/tanzania/index/assoc/HASHb932.dir/doc.pdf [details] [view taxon]

Environment marine
Distribution Chagos (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Tanzania (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (19 nucleotides; 6 proteins)
Image 
Pteria avicular
Pteria avicular
added on 2013-03-12 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:464504
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2010-03-09 16:12:34Z  created  Tëmkin, Ilya
2010-10-01 21:22:21Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
2011-03-12 15:24:03Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P.; Rosenberg, G.; Tëmkin, I. (2013). Pteria avicular (Holten, 1802). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=464504 on 2013-06-19
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