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Petricola bicolor Sowerby II, 1854 
AphiaID: 507420

Classification: Biota > Animalia (Kingdom) > Mollusca (Phylum) > Bivalvia (Class) > Heterodonta (Subclass) > Euheterodonta (Infraclass) > Veneroida (Order) > Veneroidea (Superfamily) > Veneridae (Family) > Petricolinae (Subfamily) > Petricola (Genus)
Status accepted
Record
status		 Checked by Taxonomic Editor
Rank Species
Parent Petricola Lamarck, 1801
Synonymised
taxa		  Petricola (Rupellaria) bicolor G. B. Sowerby, 1854
 Petricola albanyana Turton, 1932
 Petricola typica G. B. Sowerby III, 1892
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]

basis of record: Petit R.E. (2009) George Brettingham Sowerby, I, II & III: their conchological publications and molluscan taxa. Zootaxa 2189: 1–218. [details]

additional source: Kilburn, R.N. & Rippey, E. (1982) Sea Shells of Southern Africa. Macmillan South Africa, Johannesburg, xi + 249 pp.
page(s): 201 [details]

status source: Kilburn, R.N. (1977) Taxonomic studies on the marine Mollusca of southern Africa and Mozambique. Part 1. Annals of the Natal Museum, 23, 173–214. [details]

Environment marine
Link To Encyclopedia of Life
Image 
Petricola bicolor
Petricola bicolor
added on 2013-01-07 - author: Natural History Museum Rotterdam ()
qualitystatus: not checked
LSID urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:507420
Taxonomic
Edit history		 
Date   action   by
2010-08-18 08:38:17Z  created  Tran, Bastien
2010-09-15 11:43:10Z  checked  Huber, Markus
2012-07-07 17:10:24Z  changed  Rosenberg, Gary
  
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  Citation: Rosenberg, G.; Huber, M. (2013). Petricola bicolor Sowerby II, 1854. Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=507420 on 2013-06-19
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