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Chama frondosa Broderip, 1835 
AphiaID: 504769

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Chamoidea (Superfamily) > Chamidae (Family) > Chama (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Chama Linnaeus, 1758
Synonymised
taxa		  Chama parasitica Rochebrune, 1895
Sources  original description: Broderip W.J. (1835). Description of some species of Chama. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, 2: 148-151., available online at http://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/30568491 [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]

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]

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Variety Chama frondosa var. fornicata Carpenter, 1857 accepted as Chama buddiana C. B. Adams, 1852
Variety Chama frondosa var. mexicana Carpenter, 1857 accepted as Chama coralloides Reeve, 1846
Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (46 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
To ITIS
Image 
Chama frondosa
Chama frondosa
added on 2012-08-09 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:504769
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). Chama frondosa Broderip, 1835. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=504769 on 2013-05-21
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