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Diplothyra curta (G. B. Sowerby I, 1834) 
AphiaID: 506991

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Myoida (Order) > Pholadoidea (Superfamily) > Pholadidae (Family) > Martesiinae (Subfamily) > Diplothyra (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status
 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Diplothyra Tryon, 1862
Synonymised
taxa
  Diplothyra smithii Tryon, 1862
Martesia intercalata Carpenter, 1857
Pholas curta G. B. Sowerby I, 1834 (original combination)
Pholas grayana G. B. Sowerby II, 1872
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]

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: Abbott, R.T. (1974). American Seashells. 2nd ed. Van Nostrand Reinhold: New York, NY (USA). 663 pp. (look up in IMIS[details] [view taxon]

from synonym: Turgeon, D. D., W. G. Lyons, P. Mikkelsen, G. Rosenberg, and F. Moretzsohn. 2009. Bivalvia (Mollusca) of the Gulf of Mexico, Pp. 711–744 in Felder, D.L. and D.K. Camp (eds.), Gulf of Mexico–Origins, Waters, and Biota. Biodiversity. Texas A&M Press, Colleg [details] [view taxon]

Vernacular
Names
 
Language   Name 
English oyster piddock (from synonym)  [details]
Distribution Caribbean Sea (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Colombia (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Gulf of Mexico (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
North West Atlantic (from synonym) [details] [view taxon]
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:506991
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). Diplothyra curta (G.B. Sowerby I, 1834). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=506991 on 2013-05-21
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