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Callithaca Dall, 1902 
AphiaID: 492483

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Genus
Typetaxon Tapes tenerrima Carpenter, 1857 (type by original designation)
Parent Veneridae Rafinesque, 1815
Synonymised
taxa
  Protocallithaca Nomura, 1937 (synonym)
Sources  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]

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]

Direct child
taxa

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 Species Callithaca adamsi (Reeve, 1863)
Species Callithaca tenerrima (Carpenter, 1857)
Link To GenBank
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:492483
Taxonomic
Edit history
 
Date   action   by
2010-07-31 13:00:00Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2012-10-10 20:01:03Z  changed  Bouchet, Philippe
  
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  Citation: Bouchet, P. (2013). Callithaca Dall, 1902. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=492483 on 2013-05-22
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