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Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSaccostrea palmula (Carpenter, 1857) 
AphiaID: 506729

Classification: Biota > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorAnimalia (Kingdom) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorMollusca (Phylum) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorBivalvia (Class) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorPteriomorphia (Subclass) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstreoida (Order) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstreoidea (Superfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstreidae (Family) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorCrassostreinae (Subfamily) > Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSaccostrea (Genus)
Status accepted
Rank Species
Parent Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorSaccostrea Dollfus & Dautzenberg, 1920
Synonymised
taxa		  Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorDendostrea amara (Carpenter, 1863)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstrea amara Carpenter, 1864
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstrea conchaphila var. palmula Carpenter, 1857 (original combination)
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstrea dalli Lamy, 1930
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstrea frons Carpenter, 1864
 Checked: verified by a taxonomic editorOstrea mexicana G. B. Sowerby II, 1871
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]

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Environment marine
Links Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Barcode of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Biodiversity Heritage Library (3 publications) 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo Encyclopedia of Life 
Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editorTo GenBank (27 nucleotides; 2 proteins) 
Images Unreviewed: has not been verified by a taxonomic editor[show unreviewed]
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506729
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). Saccostrea palmula (Carpenter, 1857). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506729 on 2014-03-08
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