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Tucetona pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 504547

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Arcoida (Order) > Arcoidea (Superfamily) > Glycymerididae (Family) > Tucetona (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Tucetona Iredale, 1931
Synonymised
taxa		  Arca pectunculus Linnaeus, 1758
 Glycymeris pectiniformis (Lamarck, 1819)
 Pectunculus pectiniformis Lamarck, 1819
 Pectunculus subauritus Lamarck, 1801
 Tucetona amboinensis extra Iredale, 1939
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]

from synonym: Linnaeus, C. (1758). Systema Naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio decima, reformata. Laurentius Salvius: Holmiae. ii, 824 pp., available online at http://gdz.sub.uni-goettingen.de/no_cache/dms/load/toc/?IDDOC=265100 [details] [view taxon]

from synonym: MacDonald & Co (1979). The MacDonald Encyclopedia of Shells. MacDonald & Co. London & Sydney. [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names		 
Language   Name 
English scalloplike bittersweet shell (from synonym)  [details]
Direct child
taxa
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Subspecies Tucetona pectunculus audouini Matsukuma, 1984 accepted as Tucetona audouini (Jousseaume in Lamy, 1916)
Links To Barcode of Life
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Images 
Tucetona pectunculus
Tucetona pectunculus
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
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Tucetona pectunculus
Tucetona pectunculus
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:504547
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). Tucetona pectunculus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504547 on 2013-05-24
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