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Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758) 
AphiaID: 507055

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Pteriomorphia (Subclass) > Pterioida (Order) > Pterioidea (Superfamily) > Malleidae (Family) > Malleus (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Malleus Lamarck, 1799
Synonymised
taxa		  Himantopoda vulgaris Schumacher, 1817
 Malleus vulgaris Lamarck, 1801
 Ostrea malleus Linnaeus, 1758 (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]

status source: Tëmkin I. (2010) Molecular phylogeny of pearl oysters and their relatives (Mollusca, Bivalvia, Pterioidea). BMC Evolutionary Biology 10: 342., available online at http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2148-10-342.pdf [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]

Links To Biodiversity Heritage Library (12 publications)
To Encyclopedia of Life
To GenBank (8 nucleotides; 1 proteins)
To USNM Invertebrate Zoology Mollusca Collection
Image 
Malleus malleus
Malleus malleus
added on 2012-09-26 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507055
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). Malleus malleus (Linnaeus, 1758). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507055 on 2013-05-21
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