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Anadara formosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833) 
AphiaID: 504309

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Arcoida (Order) > Arcoidea (Superfamily) > Arcidae (Family) > Anadara (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Anadara Gray, 1847
Synonymised
taxa		  Anadara auricula F. R. Bernard, 1983
 Arca auriculata G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 (invalid: junior homonym of Arca auriculata Lamarck, 1819; Arca aviculaeformis and A. auricula are both replacement names)
 Arca aviculaeformis Nyst, 1848
 Arca aviculoides Reeve, 1844 (invalid: junior homonym of Arca aviculoides de Koninck, 1842)
 Arca formosa G. B. Sowerby I, 1833 (original combination)
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]

basis of record: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [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]

Links To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Anadara formosa
Anadara formosa
added on 2012-07-12 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:504309
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-08-18 08:38:17Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-15 11:43:10Z  checked  Huber, Markus
  
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  Citation: Huber, M. (2013). Anadara formosa (G. B. Sowerby I, 1833). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504309 on 2013-06-18
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